NPPF: CANTO ONE D. Fowler/ for Jasper

[cfalbert]

Hey, I'm no technician.......

but if I understand the difference, I think he does both...

here is "open"

Robert Browning's Last Duchess:

  That's my last duchess painted on the wall,
  Looking as if she were alive. I call
  That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands
  Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

Seems  open implies that rhymes may occurr at random points in a  clause or
sentence, ordered by "meter"....

Heroic, it would appear, mandates that the line ends when the clause, phrase
or sentence does....

For the most part, Canto One seems to cleave to the latter....but you are
absolutely correct to point out the deviation.....

love,
cfa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malignd" <malignd at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: NPPF: CANTO ONE D. Fowler/ for Jasper


> <<You asked yesterday why Nabokov felt compelled to
> "rhyme"....here is a standard explanation for the use
> of the heroic couplet....>>
>
> Small point, but Nabokov in PF wrote what are called
> "open couplets" (I think), not Heroic (or closed)
> couplets.
>
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