I'm not exactly sure what you mean Maureen. I say mine out loud, do you mean that you don't say yours out loud ?Maureen K Clifford wrote: That's the problem Neville I can see it but I can't hear it.and to be able to write it down to see it I first have to hear it to see what are the stressed bits - apart from me.
I also make a notation at the top of the page where I intend to write the lines underneath,
something like this for four stress iambic
- / - / - / -/
or sometimes like this
+ 1 + 2 + 3 + 4
and I read each line out and compare it with the stress notation.
