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You are writing an epic poem.
What metre do you use?

>> No.19338860

iambic pentameter obviously

>> No.19338886

>>19338860
What's your rhyme scheme? Do you invert? How often do you enjamb? Answer at once!

>> No.19339039

>>19338886
I don't know im a poetry beginner and I thought iambic pentameter was the iliad meter but apparently it was didactic hexameter or something, i checked a few minutes ago but i wont check it again

>> No.19339058

>>19339039
I think you mean Dactylic Hexameter desu

>> No.19339079

metre is like religious laws

pretends to be for the greater good but is really just pointless semantics

>> No.19339138

>>19338853
Blank verse, of course. Heroic couplets sound cheesy nowadays, ottava rime is best for comedy, terza rima and Spenserian stanzas are each too closely associated with a certain poet.

>> No.19339394
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19339394

Why, I write it in blank verse of course.

>> No.19339531 [DELETED] 

>>19338853
Spenserian stanza!
Ex.:

A: O I got a crime record as Bess, that
B: Queen o' Albion, o' the shimmerin'
A: Isles, grand land in which Golden Goose sat
B: Right upon th' eggs o' its closest kin,
B: A.K. Forty Seven maketh me sin
C: 'Tis th'instrument with which I dispense o'
B: Asinine donkeys who disrupt my din
C: So don't make me act th' corrupted fo',
C: We can cross swords, no mayhaps, toe to toe.

>> No.19339544

>>19338853
Spenserian stanza!
Ex.:

A: O I got a crime record as Bess, that
B: Queen o' Albion, o' the shimmerin'
A: Isles, grand land in which Golden Goose sat
B: Right upon th' eggs o' its closest kin,
B: A.K. Forty Seven maketh me sin
C: 'Tis th'instrument with which I dispense o'
B: Asinine donkeys who disrupt my din
C: So don't make me act th' corrupted fo',
C: We can cross swords and fists, no mayhaps, toe to toe.

>> No.19339594

>>19339079
It feels really good, especially when it's something like an alternate rhyme, ABA BCB CDC feels like solving a puzzle or playing music

>> No.19339595

>>19339039
>didactic hexameter
six feet per line, but they each teach you something

>> No.19340060

I write in a meter of my own invention because I am obviously a genius.

>> No.19340307

>>19340060
What is it?

>> No.19340335

>>19339039
iambic pentameter example is paradise lost i think

>> No.19340362

>>19339595

Underrated post

>> No.19340370

>>19338853
None

>> No.19340375

>>19338853
Alexandrine with a line of heptameter at the end of each stanza.

>> No.19340378

>>19340307
A milimeter

>> No.19340449

>>19340375
How long is a stanza? What rhyme pattern?

>> No.19340572

>>19339138
I believe Spenserian stanza has been exploited and modified by other poets. The University of Vermont has an amazing database tracing Spenser's influence on English poetry.

>> No.19340591

trochaic hexameter in terza rima

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19340631

Why, dactylic hexameter, of course

>> No.19340638

>>19338853
> metre
We are living in the 21st century.

>> No.19340684

>>19340638
Exactly, its time to leave that stodgy old free verse shit behind us in the 20th century where it belongs.

>> No.19340816

>>19340362
Upvoted! Fuck off

>> No.19340827

>>19338853
Iambic Pentameter

>>19339039
kek

>> No.19340909

Which muse do y'all niggas invoke?

>> No.19341084

>>19340909
Calliope, the one and only....

>> No.19341789

>>19339039
>>19339058
>>19340631
How the hell do you write dactylic hexameter in english?

>> No.19341794

>>19338853
Oh, me? I'm writing my epic poem in prose poetry format

>> No.19341797

>>19340909
Uh, my kpop waifu (male)