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I doodle around with structured poetry as I seem to have more of a knack for that than for anything else, even though most of my stuff is humorous or nonsensical fluff. There are two things that bug me when reading such poetry: 1/ Additional or missing syllables/feet. You get the rhythm going in your head as you're reading it, and then you get tripped up when a line is too long or too short. (Limericks are notorious for it.) 2/ Even when the count is right, the stress pattern is wrong. The poem is iambic/trochaic/whatever and the pulse has to be on the correct parts, but you're forced to put awkard and unnatural stress on certain words to make it work. It stands out like a sore thumb. I'll rewrite my stuff time and time again to try to get it right, though I have to own up to having the occasional clumsy stress pattern here and there. |
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