minstrel: a poem I'd like help with

[Fred (Flieg) Hollander]

Flieg here --
   Well, I took this to the Mists Bardic Workshop, and since I was the only
one there I pondered it a while and came up with a little analysis.
   Then I read Mistress Tangwystl's extensive analysis.
   What she said.
   There are a couple of places where I would have stressed a different
syllable, but she has it much better than I.
   The only thing that I would add is that if you sing it in what I 
think of as "typical ballad tune mode" there is a lot of room in the 
melody/unstressed part to stretch words (to get an unstressed beat
where there isn't anything extra) or to put three syllables into two 
beats (using a triplet).  I was pretty much able to get all but one or
two lines into a constant (sung) length line.
   Cute problem.


At 10:10 AM 7/29/98 +1000, Fiona P. wrote:
>In a book I bought some time back, I found the following ballad.
>Apparently the songs and ballads in this book (Wright, Thomas.  1970
>reprint of an 1860 publication.  Songs and ballads with other short poems
[.trim.]
He sayd, "it was the Duglas promys this day to met me hear,
>But I wyste he wolde faylle verament;" a great ithg the Perse' swear.
                                                ^^^^
  Just one question, though. Is that really "ithg" up there?

[.trim. rest]
>

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