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A 1954 version by Stuart McKay [19] shifted the lyrics two syllables forward to make the song end surprisingly early. In McKay's version the initial "Take me" was sung as an unaccented pickup, causing the final "Game" to land on the same note as "Old" in the original, and leaving last two notes unsung.
Trochaic – two syllables, with the long or stressed syllable followed by the short or unstressed syllable. In English, this metre is found almost entirely in lyric poetry. [3] Pyrrhic – Two unstressed syllables; Anapestic – three syllables, with the first two short or unstressed and the last long or stressed. Dactylic – three syllables ...
On the origin of the song's name, Fagen says, it was inspired by football player Deacon Jones, as they like the sound of his name: "It also had two syllables, which was convenient, like 'Crimson'." [2] The song, however, is really about "the ultimate outsider, the flip side of the dream, boy-o . . . call me Deacon Blues." [11]
Each stressed syllable rhymes with another stressed syllable using one of three rhyme sets. Each rhyme set is indicated by a different highlight color. Note that the yellow rhyme set provides internal rhyme in lines 1, 2, and 5, and end rhymes in lines 3 and 4, whereas the blue set is entirely internal, and the pink is exclusively end rhymes.
So, the definition of feminine rhyme from Encyclopedia Britannica is "a rhyme involving two syllables" and both "my cat" and "hi-hat" are two syllables long, and the book goes on to give more feminine rhymes as examples of multies - "try me/I.V." from Ludacris' "Number One Spot" on pg. 37, and "nervous/surface" from Eminem's "Lose Yourself" on ...
"Wendell Gee" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. that was released as the third and final single from the group's third studio album Fables of the Reconstruction in 1985. It was released in Europe only, in two 7" and two 12" formats.
The first of these, with ten syllables, [b] has an uncontroversial masculine ending: the stressed syllable more. The last line, with eleven syllables, has an uncontroversial feminine ending: the stressless syllable me. The second and third lines end in two stressless syllables (-tri-us, on you). Having ten syllables, they are structurally ...
A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line. A line missing two syllables is called brachycatalectic.