Pound has the melody imitating the vowels, just as with Antheil he had worked out complex time signatures to imitate the spoken delivery of his meters -- to have the musical performance imitate the durations of vowels and pauses. Tim Romano At 04:12 PM 10/8/03, Tim Bray wrote: >I have wondered how lyricists writing in tonal languages fit the shapes >of vowels to the shape of the melody...