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What's your favourite metre?
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What's your favourite metre?
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iambic tetrameter for personal reasons
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>>7413940
kilometre, amerifags need not apply.
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>>7413940
trochaic tetrameter, trochaic octameter catalectic, iambic hexameter
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>>7413940
dróttkvætt
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>no dactylic hexameter
Rome is disappointed
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>>7413943
>personal reasons
Could you tell us more?
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>>7413984
my first experience with pederasty was on holiday in greece, the older man charmed me with recitations about love of men and boys
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>>7413940
my favourite meme is pepe
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Trimeter
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>>7414279
>Trimeter
>holds up five fingers
What a jokester you are. You must make your mother laugh all the time.
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Are you guys afraid to say it? I will: iambic pentameter
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>>7414439
Rhymed or unrhymed?
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>>7414441
rhymed probably
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>>7413940
The one between my legs
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>>7414450
Pyrrhic monometer (short and never rises)?
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>>7414488
hahahah dude thanks, you actually just made me chuckle for the first time in a while. That's exactly the kind of joke I come here for.
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Alexandrine (especially the variation with an additional rhyme in the middle of a verse)

>>7413940
Damn...
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i'll argue that form is for hacks
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>>7414972
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>>7413975
But that's only really fit for quantative metre, which is objectively shit
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>>7414993
>quantative metre, which is objectively shit
Do you mean in English or in any language?
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>>7414441
unrhymed
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>>7413984
no. what you imagine the reason to be is probably more interesting than the truth tbqh.
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iambic pentameter
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