On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:05 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 02:58 +0100, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Madeline wrote: > > > On 2018-02-08 12:26, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > > >> (I think option 1 is redundant with option 2, anyway. Limericks _do_ > have > > >> rhyming scheme and strict meter.) > > > > > > I think it kind of works if you treat "Ok so, hear me out" as > > spoken rather > > > than part of the first line? > > > > ...No, no it doesn't. > > Just to support your point here: > > It's always surprised me how many people don't understand > scansion/meter. It's a more important part of poetry than rhyme is. > > Limericks have a very strict meter, which makes it almost impossible to > write a proposal as a single limerick because there's just not enough > room to fit in all the necessary boilerplate and a reasonable payload > before you run out of syllables. (I guess it'd be less bad if you > merely wanted to change the gamestate rather than creating a rule.) > > -- > ais523 > Tsk tsk. Indeed my good sir, but my poem was intended to be read with convenient amounts of stammering and lisping in case you didn't notice.
