Dragaera

Dzur and the cycle poem

Thu Oct 27 14:43:08 PDT 2005

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. ;)