Poetry. Call and response. The breathing body of poetry from the beginning. The psalms of David the wave of them rise and fall of plainchant verse and response. The constantly shifting pause between the halflines of Old English poetry and the poems of the Edda the halflines of the Kalevala swayed out fourhanded on the saga bench. So I thought towards the twoline stanza as experiments in duration in complex syntactic and melodic demands. The melody of the first line necessitates the melody of