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7413940 No.7413940 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favourite metre?

>> No.7413943

iambic tetrameter for personal reasons

>> No.7413949

>>7413940
kilometre, amerifags need not apply.

>> No.7413952

>>7413940
trochaic tetrameter, trochaic octameter catalectic, iambic hexameter

>> No.7413964
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7413964

>>7413940
dróttkvætt

>> No.7413975

>no dactylic hexameter
Rome is disappointed

>> No.7413984

>>7413943
>personal reasons
Could you tell us more?

>> No.7414056

>>7413984
my first experience with pederasty was on holiday in greece, the older man charmed me with recitations about love of men and boys

>> No.7414252

>>7413940
my favourite meme is pepe

>> No.7414279
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7414279

Trimeter

>> No.7414285

>>7414279
>Trimeter
>holds up five fingers
What a jokester you are. You must make your mother laugh all the time.

>> No.7414439

Are you guys afraid to say it? I will: iambic pentameter

>> No.7414441

>>7414439
Rhymed or unrhymed?

>> No.7414448

>>7414441
rhymed probably

>> No.7414450

>>7413940
The one between my legs

>> No.7414488

>>7414450
Pyrrhic monometer (short and never rises)?

>> No.7414500

>>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.

>> No.7414687

Alexandrine (especially the variation with an additional rhyme in the middle of a verse)

>>7413940
Damn...

>> No.7414972

i'll argue that form is for hacks

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7414986

>>7414972

>> No.7414993

>>7413975
But that's only really fit for quantative metre, which is objectively shit

>> No.7414998

>>7414993
>quantative metre, which is objectively shit
Do you mean in English or in any language?

>> No.7415903

>>7414441
unrhymed

>> No.7415920

>>7413984
no. what you imagine the reason to be is probably more interesting than the truth tbqh.

>> No.7415991

iambic pentameter

>> No.7417658

Bump.