Oh wow this is a really great breakdown of the song’s structure.
I don’t really know any music theory, but I know a bit about poetry, and I can implicitly piece together how it works and hear whether or not it scans. I could tell there was a lot of weird optionality in this song, where you can shove in extra mora or whole feet in lines or leave them out and it would still scan, but sometimes it wouldn’t. The song’s meter does some weird stuff I don’t really understand, which makes it both easy and hard to match (easy in that it offers a lot of flexibility for creativity, hard in that it’s complex and easy to get wrong if you don’t try singing it).
Oh wow this is a really great breakdown of the song’s structure.
I don’t really know any music theory, but I know a bit about poetry, and I can implicitly piece together how it works and hear whether or not it scans. I could tell there was a lot of weird optionality in this song, where you can shove in extra mora or whole feet in lines or leave them out and it would still scan, but sometimes it wouldn’t. The song’s meter does some weird stuff I don’t really understand, which makes it both easy and hard to match (easy in that it offers a lot of flexibility for creativity, hard in that it’s complex and easy to get wrong if you don’t try singing it).