Ok, this has been bugging me for twenty-odd years. I just put it into the Lyorn Records wiki, but I'd like to hear what people think here. Pronouncing "Dzur" The Cycle <http://dragaera.wikicities.com/wiki/Cycle> poem is in trochaic tetrameter <http://tinablue.homestead.com/Prosody2meter.html> (* http://tinablue.homestead.com/Prosody2meter.html*), That is, the lines have four feet, each one is a trochee (STRONG weak), e.g. "PHOEnix SINKS in TO de CAY___" (the last foot is a half-foot in every line) But: this line is an exception: *Dzur stalks and blends with night.* The only way the poem scans (that I can see) is if Dzur is pronounced with TWO syllables, with the first one strongest, as in: "DEE-zur" STALKS and BLENDS with NIGHT ____ Does anyone think that it's pronounced that way? Or have another way to make that line scan properly? (Other than changing words) -- \Steve