(obviously) On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:31 AM, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. >
