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Why are comics and poems alike 6: are really metrics and comics compatible? p1

Metrics are not compatible to vignettes, Metrics deal with sound units and the vignettes are image units. Plus, there are no clear conventions about the number of vignettes or chomas used on page; like there used to be about poems.

A beat is not centered in the how it happens but in the what and; seemingly, it is a way to subdivide a story de same way an outline divides into chapters and scenes. As such, beats explain how to subdivide things into scenes but nothing about measuring thus beats are not what integrates metrics into comics. Measuring, outside the number of pages, seems incompatible to comic. Comics, though some of them are defined by the number of vignettes (space limitations caused by page size), can be subdivided in as much vignettes as needed. Be it by design or necessity. Never the will to encase the narrative into the specific measure of beats artificially imposed by convention.


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A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION

This is a different conclusion to the series about metrics, poetry and comics. It means I might be wrong and I don’t know if I’m being brave enough to say I’ve made a mistake or stupid enough to walk backwards and show you what some people call a bad quality: to back off on beliefs. But, as in yoga1, sometimes one must undo what’s been done.

RHYME OR SYMMETRY

In spite of agreeing comics and poetry can’t be measured in a similar manner given the differences between image and sound and regarding the fact rhyme is totally independent from metrics; I realized I haven’t proved at all metrics exist for both media.

A verse can consist in two, five, twelve syllables and still be iambic or not, rhymed or not. Thus, the translation symmetry2 is there or not but metrics is all about In music there are musemas, the minimal unit of musical meaning that can be symmetric when repeated. Believe it or not. And I should stop researching unrelated topics or I’ll never end sounds.

WHAT’S MISSING IN ORDER TO CORRELATE METRICS AND COMICS?

Big-Choma would tell me: “If you can count syllables in a poem, you can do the same about vignettes”. That’s’ the missing thing. Once the relation between poem and comics stablished as sequence, silence and symmetry.

Right! There are 4 vignettes, 8, 9 and … how many squares were there in the man wearing a bat’s page I posted in the entry about sequence? They happened to be 14, as in an Alexandrian stanza. Are there Alexandrian sequences in comics?

There can be a different number of vignettes, even in the same comic volume


TO BE CONTINUED

  1. No, I don’t do yoga. ↩︎
  2. In music there are musemas, the minimal unit of musical meaning that can be symmetric when repeated. Believe it or not. And I should stop researching unrelated topics or I’ll never end ↩︎

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