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"The Wind Is Round" by Howard Moss

9/1/2026
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Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Frost Farm and the new generation of metricians 

-The Necklace of Harmonia and Against Oblivion

-The musical caesura

-"Uriel" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Ouroboros, yin-yang thinking

-"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" by Wallace Stevens

-The transcendental imagination

-Dante's Paradiso

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Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet: 
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

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