Re: Rhyming Conlangs

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.

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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_