A Prayer for My Daughter its "metremes", or rhymical motifs, rather than common metrical devices. The poem also may be read to consist of straightforward iambic verse that relies on common metrical devices such as elision, acephalous lines, promotion, and metrical inversion. Lines 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 of each stanza are iambic pentameter; lines 4, 6, and 7 are iambic tetrameter. For instance, using traditional principles of scansion, stanza two may be scanned as shown below, where syllables in all caps represent metrical beats, lower-case syllables represent metrical off-beats, the vertical bar represents the termination of a metrical foot, and apostrophes represent elisions.
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (film) Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (film) Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town is a 1967 short film made by George Lucas based on E. E. Cummings' poem of the same name. It was one of two films Lucas made after returning to USC's film school as a graduate in 1967 (the other was "The Emperor"). The film represented a first for the USC film school by being shot in color and widescreen. The film was shown out of competition in the "Special Screening" section at the "Short Shorts Film Festival EXPO 2005". The film focuses on the