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15 lines
535 B
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traditional yak poetry, based on mussorgsky
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Why? yaks lumber in their poetry.
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star indicate that stressed initial syllable can itself be replaced by an iamb or dibrach (but spoken in quavers, so to speak)
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| 3 | 2* | 3* | 3 |
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. * . | * . | * . . | * . . |
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first foot often replaced with dactyl (* . .)?
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The holy | burden | we receive | willingly
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Upon us | lain by | Yakob, by | Hierarchs old.
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This holy | burden, | upholding the | law divine.
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To Virtues | sworn― | Discipline | maintaining.
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God that's hard to write.
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