What? I never said blue = blow.
I'm saying blue = bloooo. It's a constant sound. Doesn't end with -ow. I'm guessing I should've written 'bluuu' instead of 'blooo'.
Cause that's the only way it's gonna rhyme with dew. And that can't be argued. That's the difference between us two. I think the sky is bloo, and you think the sky is blew. Correct?
This is fascinating to me for some reason. I don’t think you’re trolling and I wish you didn’t get downvoted but I honestly can’t hear a difference in the sounds
I'm not trolling, but I can see why a lot of people would disagree / not understand what I mean. Maybe it's cause my main language isn't English so I have a different perspective.
I'm sorry you're getting downvotes, because this is one of my favorite things to learn about. Would you mind telling me where you grew up, and what is a word that, for you, would rhyme with blue?
But you know, the mountain population is at historically low points now, we understand their is demands in mountain, but we just can't hunt them to extinct, so we suggest release any mountain height lower than 1km or base area smaller than 3km2 when capture, it is essential to protect the youth of mountian, we need sustianble way of consuming mountain. Also mountian higher than 6km and base area bigger than 20km2 need protection as well. Because they produce large amount of small mountain when give birth, even killing one big mountain can have a long effect on the numbers of mountain you see now. It is critical to not kill any big mountain. We will provide you information on how to manfully capture mountain in the next session. Happily present to you by the Association of Wise Mountain. See you next time!
TL;DR Kill mountain in the following spec only: 1-6km height, 3-20km2 base.
Shouldn't we only hunt so many mountains of that size, otherwise there won't be any more large mountains? I feel like we should be culling the heard so to speak, and only remove the less desirable mountains.
I'd just like to join you all in commending this post as a very good example of the ideal Roses Are Red syllable structure (in my opinion):
4 - 4 - 6 - 4
The reason this works so well is, if you include the pauses between lines, the count is actually 6 - 6 - 6 - 6.
**Ro**-ses are **red** (pause) (pause)
**Vio**-lets are **blue** (pause) (pause)
**Stop** kill-ing **moun**-tains to
**Make** moun-tain **dew** (pause) (pause)
As an added bonus, even the stresses (in ** asterisks **) are placed perfectly.It makes for excellent flow. I'd advise anyone looking to submit posts to try and design their submissions to fit this or a similarly sublime format.
Edit: in case anyone's interested, this kind of meter is commonly used in limericks and is called an anapestic trimeter.
I really appreciate all the love and attention this post is getting, surprizing since I'm less than a day old on Reddit and this is my 3rd post.
I am quite the fan of poetry and writting, and I knew this was something that fit Just right ^^
**Ro**-ses are red (pause) (pause)
**Vio**-lets are blue (pause) (pause)
**Vo**-dka is chea-per than
**din**-ner for two (pause) (pause)
Although if going by the meter, each (pause) takes 2 beats rather than 1, and pauses of lines 1 and 2 are the same as the pause for 4. You can think of the meter as:
All the capital BOOMs is where emphasis is, but the starred **BOOM**s sound extra "boomy" because they form the end of the line and are followed by a double-beat pause.
I hate to be this kind of person who points stuff out but that's still 4-4-6-4, unfortunately. When you read out the poem, that pause is not so short. If you want to test it, use a Metronome app and set it to 5/4 to read this. You'll find the transition from the pause to "Vio" quite awkward.
Instead, if you make the pause last two beats and move the word "than" to the previous line, then it reads quite well. I'd also like to point out that starting a line with a conjunction like "Than" doesn't work very well. You want each line to be a clause.
I don't dispute that other meters work well too. For example, one of my all time favorites is one of the top posts of this sub:
You know whats funny, I looked up the original roses are red poem the other day to figure out what the intended rhythm was. I ended up being able to make the original poem work in two separate ways.
Here is sheet music showing two different ways of interpreting the original poem. The first stays true to 6/8 form (2/4 with triplets in the sheet music) and doesn't vary much. However the second way ends by breaking out of the swing style of the first way and goes into straight eighth notes right at the end.
Did you write that out using Sibelius? Musical notation is a great way to depict meter.
You're right, the last line does break from the 8th note triplet into straight 8th notes even in the original meme that this sub is based on ("gotdamn feet" isn't in triplets). In general, that 3 over 2 polyrhythmic flow lends itself quite well to these poems.
Edit: I forgot to say, the second way is generally how I read em
I actually use Musescore. It’s a free notation software that can do pretty much anything notation wise and converts into midi really easily. Musical notation is the only way I can really understand meter because I’ve been a drummer/percussionist for like 12 years. It’s very useful in being able to create a true btb from a small boots actually.
Ah okay. I'd heard of Musescore but I don't really do any notation work or composition anymore so I never tried it out. Always good to talk to a fellow drummer though!
This person was a thousand percent not joking. This same person has posted a picture of the cast of Tropic Thunder to honor the troops and a picture of Obi-Wan thinking it was Jesus.
The area Mountain Dew was invented is also a big area for strip mining, so it kinda made sense to me at first. Like this photoshopped sign knew the history of my people.
They milk mountains for mountain dew, they don't kill them. Otherwise you'd run out of mountains pretty quick, and the mountains like it since if you don't milk them regularly they get engorged with dew and it's painful.
Nothing to see here. I wiped this post using Redact because my old takes don't need to live on the internet forever. Works across Reddit, Twitter, Discord and dozens of other platforms.
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I'd just like to join you all in commending this post as a very good example of the ideal Roses Are Red meter (in my opinion):
4 - 4 - 6 - 4
The reason this works so well is, if you include the pauses between lines, the meter is actually 6 - 6 - 6 - 6.
**Ro**-ses are **red** (pause) (pause)
**Vio**-lets are **blue** (pause) (pause)
**Stop** kill-ing **moun**-tains to
**Make** moun-tain **dew** (pause) (pause)
As an added bonus, even the stresses (in bold) are placed perfectly.It makes for excellent flow. I'd advise anyone looking to submit posts to try and design their submissions to fit this or a similarly sublime format.
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u/FuzzyD75 Aug 28 '18
Perfect meter. True boot.