Why are comics and poems alike 5: metrics p1

metric² /ˈmɛtrɪk/

I. adjective

relating to or composed in a poetic metre.

• the public recitation of metric, rhyming verse.

II. noun

the metre of a poem.

– origin late 15th cent. (denoting the branch of study dealing with metre): via Latin from Greek metrikos , from metron (see metre² ).

metre² /ˈmiːtə / ‹US› meter

I. noun

1. the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line

• the Horatian ode has an intricate governing metre

• [ mass noun ] unexpected changes of stress and metre.

2. the basic rhythmic pattern of beats in a piece of music.

• a dance song in fast quadratic metre.

• Prokofiev’s complex metres.

– origin Old English, reinforced in Middle English by Old French metre , from Latin metrum , from Greek metron ‘measure’.

CAN COMICS BE MEASURED WITH METRICS?

…Ah, good question. Thus, I [most] probably have a shellish answer for that. Particularly since I don’t know anything about metrics and the less about metrics in English. Spanish speaker, remember? However, here I go trying the impossible,

From the point of view of the above definition, NO. Metrics measure verses. Comics don’t have verses. Conclusion? Comics and poetry have nothing to do regarding metrics.

WHAT CHANGED FROM LAST ENTRY?

Are you just being Mary quite contrary, Merriam? Maybe…

Do you know this science procedure of establishing ways to prove something as false? Well, I’m running a mock trial of falsifiable. That’s, if I can. Maybe I can only make a bigger mess than the one I already started in last entry but one has to do in order to mess up.

Thus, we need to keep the statement:

comics and poems don’t have metrics as a similar feature at all

in order to try and prove the opposite.

TO BE CONTINUED