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dianec42 ([personal profile] dianec42) wrote2004-12-08 04:18 pm

from [livejournal.com profile] hobbitomm

It isn't a poem
Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.


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[identity profile] hobbitomm.livejournal.com 2004-12-09 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, I'll bite.

"If it doesn't rhyme, and doesn't scan, it's not a poem"?

[identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com 2004-12-09 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure it's, "I don't care. If it doesn't have meter, it's not a poem."

Which is exactly the snobby sort of think I'm likely to say...

[identity profile] sharikkamur.livejournal.com 2004-12-09 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Good thing I'm wrinting poetry with formal rhyming structure nowadays then. :)