Songs discussed in The Rainbow Mythos include:

 

Tarot Woman (lyrics here)

Rainbow Eyes (lyrics here)

Catch The Rainbow (lyrics here)

The Man On The Silver Mountain (lyrics here)

The Temple Of The King (lyrics here)

Stargazer (lyrics here)

A Light In The Black (lyrics here)

 

Topics discussed include:

Brian Brodeur's new book, Some Problems With Autobiography

Katie Hartsock's new book, Wolf Trees

My episode on Brian Brodeur

Poetry lyric vs. Song lyric

Poetic vs. Mythopoetic

C.S. Lewis on George Macdonald

Juke-box musicals

A brief history of the mighty Dio

An Angel Is Missing by Ronnie and the Redcaps

Elf, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Ritchie Blackmore

Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell

The rainbow motif

The myth of Icarus

The tragedy of civilization

The wheel keeps turning

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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 (/ /)