Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019530, Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:59:26 +0300

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iamb-plus-trochee anagram
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ОРХИДЕЯ + БОЙ + ШАР + АДАМ = ЯМБ + ХОРЕЙ + ШАРАДОИД + A

орхидея - orchid
бой - combat
шар - globe
Адам - Adam
ямб - iamb
хорей - trochee
шарадоид - "charadoid" (a charade-like puzzle)

"an iamb from a trochee he could not -
no matter how we strove - distinguish
dispraised Homer, Theocritus,
but read, in compensation, Adam Smith" (EO, One:VII:3-6)

Alexey Sklyarenko

p. s. The last line of my previous post should read: "he believed that poets who wished to convince should use the anapaest (p. 221 of the Panthers edition)".

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