On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Steve Rapaport wrote: >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*), > >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 ____ And the cynical explanation is of course the Steven Brust just buggered up his poem. ;)