SPORTSMEN'S LANGUAGE.
Sir,-I am beginning to take umbrage at the way "John Doe" has butted in on the interesting exchange which your contributor " Thid" and I had on the above subject. Who, if I may ask, taught " John Doe" that such verse-forms as hexameters and pentameters, and such measures as trochees, anapaests and dactyls, were "classical terminology" and oniy properly to be applied to Greek or Latin verse? A pentameter is a line of five feet and whether it is written by Cicero or Cicely Courtneidge does not make one iota of difference, though it is generally understood that an English pentameter is iambic, Go back to Helicon, " John Doe," and have another
drink on me.-
ZEBEDEE
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 4
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118SPORTSMEN'S LANGUAGE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 4
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