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   Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] XML Limerick Competition

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Not sure why EXMH is not wrapping my lines...

> For one thing, dactylic trimeter is an abomination in English (worse than
> heroic couplets, which have the same fundamental flaw).

Good Lord, I've been out of poetics too long.

s/dactylic/anapaestic/
s/heroic couplets/alexandrine/

I suppose I could punish myself by spending an hour readong Tennyson or Whitman, but even I don't deserve that.  The Latest SOAP WDs will have to do...  ;-)


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