At 00:37 02/22/2005, Philip Hart wrote: >Seventeen feet is way too long to sustain a coherent line, which should >approximate a breath according to some and, more importantly, should have >a hearable length. My septameters for that matter are really 3+4 feet. >Seventeen _syllables_ is a workable length, or should be - I've begun a >Dragaeran-themed poem in that meter and have been finding it difficult >to distinguish it from prose. 17 syllables is a haiku, isn't it? -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net