A three-hour tour... a three-hour tour...
I'm editing the scansion and rhyme on Robin Hood and the Potter by trying to fit each stanza into that well-known 8-6-8-6 tune, "The Theme to Gilligan's Island."
There are thirty stanzas in the first section of the poem.
That's a lot of Gilligan's Island.
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telerib," you might ask, "why not just use the standard ballad form and meter without a tune? Surely you know an iamb when you see one?" Yes, but boy howdy this ballad is rough, and I am not above using Ye Olde Ballade Trickes to stuff in or stretch out the extra syllable here or there. But you have to see if it really works with the music for that, so...)
There are thirty stanzas in the first section of the poem.
That's a lot of Gilligan's Island.
("
telerib," you might ask, "why not just use the standard ballad form and meter without a tune? Surely you know an iamb when you see one?" Yes, but boy howdy this ballad is rough, and I am not above using Ye Olde Ballade Trickes to stuff in or stretch out the extra syllable here or there. But you have to see if it really works with the music for that, so...)