http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/meter The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/standard-meter <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/world/europe/13kilogram.html?sq=standard%20kilogram" target="_blank" title="whose got the missing platimun?">The standard kilogram is losing mass!</a> A couple of keys weigh less than they used to, or anyhow one key does.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/standard-meter">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/standard-meter#comments Arlo Guthrie Le Grand K Le Grand Kripke leopards in the temple meter no not that kind of meter Wittgenstein http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1153 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:30:11 -0800 William Flesch 1153 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter <p>Following up on <a href="/there-once-was-man-nantucket-or-one-relation-between-rhyming-joking-and-narrating" title="My earlier post on Nantucket / Was quickly tossed in a bucket" target="_blank">my earlier post on Nantucket</a>, as well as <a href="/%E2%80%9Cwords%E2%80%9D-%E2%88%88-%E2%80%9Cbooks%E2%80%9D-%E2%88%88-%E2%80%9Cculture%E2%80%9D-%E2%89%A0-%E2%80%9Cculture%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cbooks%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cwords%E2%80%9D-0" title="Hey someone should do an Ngram on the word Ngram" target="_blank">all the discussion here about Ngrams</a>, I want to offer a few spontaneous speculations based on a <a href="http://web.mit.edu/piantado/www/papers/PNAS-2011-Piantadosi-1012551108.pdf" target="_blank" title="Word Lengths are Optimized for Efficient Communication - PDF!">new paper</a> that's the talk of at least a couple of neighborhoods in the town.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter#comments Alexander Pope body English Browning Dickinson Edward Gibson Freud Harry Tily information theory Markov Chains meter Milton rhyme Shakespeare Spenser Steven T. Piantadosi Wordsworth Wyatt Zipf&#039;s Law http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1139 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:19:40 -0800 William Flesch 1139 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/get-rhythm <p>Yes, Virginia, there can be a point to MLA. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/get-rhythm">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/get-rhythm#comments meter MLA Virginia Jackson http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1140 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:37:27 -0800 Christopher Warley 1140 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/my-life-withstood-yellow-rose <p>My relationship to poetry took a sharp turn for the worse the day I learned that Emily Dickinson's poetry could be recited to the tune of the &quot;Yellow Rose of Texas.&quot;  (This observation is far from original, and there are scores of other tunes that work as well for the Dickinsonian canon for reasons that are well explained elsewhere, but the moment in which this unfortunate coupling occurred to me was nonetheless a shock to my system.)</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/my-life-withstood-yellow-rose">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/my-life-withstood-yellow-rose#comments alternate lyrics elongationof of syllables in verse emily dickinson meter Preface to the Lyrical Ballads rhyme the aesthetic function of verse Wordsworth&#039;s poetic theory yellow rose of texas http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/554 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:40:28 -0800 Robin Valenza 554 at http://arcade.stanford.edu