Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > 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? > If it's the entire poem (& follows several other rules I won't bore you with). This poem, however, is 17 syllables in each *line*. I don't really care, so long as it is not Alexandrines or rhymed couplets (-; Snarkhunter