Masculine/Feminine

One more, I think, on (mostly) pentameter resolutions, and then I'll try to move on.

Here's the last major one I know of (the others being variations on the first two):

taTUM taTUM taTUM taTUM taTUMta
TUM taTUM taTUM taTUM taTUM

This is really (for my purposes, anyway) a pentameter resolution from the Augustan Age, as best I can recall.* Shakespeare, for instance, wasn't this persnickety. If a line had a "feminine" ending, so be it. He didn't (as best I recall) have an overwhelming need to "resolve" it with a TUM at the start of the next line. But if that next line rhymed with the "feminine" line, it had to measure out the same way.

taTUM taTUM taTUM taTUM taTUMta
taTUM taTUM taTUM taTUM taTUMta

Milton was the same in his rhymed verse, as far as I know (and both authors in blank verse, as well).

You maybe can see by now these "resolutions" are also opportunities for a softening effect, just as the others I've mentioned can punch things up a little, or even shape them up some.

Next time, a resolution you normally see in shorter lines of verse.

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*(11/7/15) Since I first posted this, I've had an opportunity to test this particular resolution out: it doesn't work, at least in English. Go with Shakespeare and Milton. Pope and every other major poet does it that way, also.