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Topics discussed in this episode include: 

-Literary Matters

-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

-Buy Ryan's books, including his new collection, "In Ghostlight,"  here

-"L'Estraneo" by Ryan Wilson

-"On A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" by Richard Wilbur

-"The Gardens of the Villa D'Este" by Anthony Hecht

-"The Venetian Vespers" by Anthony Hecht

-"See Naples and Die" by Anthony Hecht 

-The concept of the labyrinth

-"The Stones of Venice" by John Ruskin

-The Baudelairian method

-The Wordsworthian child archetype

-Venice has its reasons

-Strategic narrative distance

-In a satanic world, rebellion is godly. 

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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)