On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Goethe wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > >> While we're on the subject, is it just me, or is the scansion of > >> R1922(b) subtly but maddening off? > > > > Any particular place? I took a long time over those iambs. > > Line 10 does require reading "Player" with one syllable.
I get stuck a bit in reading the first stanza, but that might just be because of the positioning of the commas and full stops. Line 11 scans ok but I think the multiple "to"s make the syntax a bit odd. It's like a split infinitive that decided to unsplit halfway through.
