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[Torrenal]

I noticed last night that I can inspect poetry by getting details on it from the job screen.

The performance is at the first stanza.

Joy is an example of The Lacy Couple.  The work has no particular subject.  The writing conveys a moral lesson regarding the value of merriment.  The writing is reasonably serious.  Overall, the poetry is very very very bad.

The Lacy Couple is a poetic narrative intended to teach a moral lesson, originating in The Long Confederacies.  The rules of the form a re applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited.  The poem is divided into three distinct parts: two to for nine-line stanzas, two sixteen-line stanzas, and another two to five nine-line stanzas.  Use of alliteration is characteristic of the form.  A form of parallelism is common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning.  Each line has four feet with an accent pattern of stressed-unstressed-stressed (qualitative cretic tetrameter).

The first part concerns the past.  The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is ABACACABA.

The second part concerns current events.  The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is DDDBDDEEDDEEBEDD.

The third part concerns the future.  The rhyme scheme respecting the full poem is DBBBDBBDB.

Exciting as all that is, I'm not sure if the rhyme schemes including one of all consonants are a result of the poem being very, very bad, or if there's some terminology thing going on that I'm missing.
//Torrenal

[therahedwig]

One of all consonants?

Are you confused about how rhyming scemes work?

A limerick's rhyming sceme for example is AABBA.

The first part (ABACACABA) could then be something akin to...

Two dwarves drank some liquor
While sitting in a boat
There, the drunks started to bicker
and argue like angry geese
Their drunkeness led them to expell ichor
Verily it was a color like cheese
But had these dwarves been a bit quicker
They wouldn't have ended up in the moat
Thus, beer makes a dwarf a tiny tad thicker

The lines that share a color would be sharing a letter in the sceme, D and E in the next part could then be a new rhyme word, and B would have to rhyme with moat and boat again.
(The rhythm sucks because I have no idea what "qualitative cretic tetrameter" sounds like)

[Torrenal]

That starts to make some sense, thanks!

[LMeire]

...
(The rhythm sucks because I have no idea what "qualitative cretic tetrameter" sounds like)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretic

Since Cretic is apparently 3-syllables only, I'm guessing each line has a multiple of 12.

[Klitri]

Are we going to ignore the best f'n poem created in all of history ?


Two dwarves drank some liquor
While sitting in a boat
There, the drunks started to bicker
and argue like angry geese
Their drunkeness led them to expell ichor
Verily it was a color like cheese
But had these dwarves been a bit quicker
They wouldn't have ended up in the moat
Thus, beer makes a dwarf a tiny tad thicker