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Re: Rhyming Conlangs

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Monday, October 8, 2001, 23:27
Quoting Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

> Which is one of the main reasons I consider most modern verse poorly > written schlock. Most of it reads like a cereal box. Give me rhyme (or a > good alliterative scheme) or give me prose. Don't give me feeble prose > masquerading as verse. /soapbox
Sometimes you're right. But rhymed poetry is just about as often done simply for its own sake, whatever positive or negative effect it may have on the poetry itself. IMO it usually takes more skill to write good poetry in meter and verse than it does without, so I sympathize with your statement. ============================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> "There once was a man who said, 'God "Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd; Must think it exceedingly odd *I* am always about in the Quad If he finds that this tree And that's why the tree continues to be will continue to be when there's no one about in the Quad.'" Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God." -- two Berkeleian limericks in Bertrand Russell's _Unpopular Essays_