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[The view is rather dark and hazy, but one can tell Raven's at a rather hipster and somewhat gothy cafe, looking a little annoyed. It's open mic night, and someone reading a poem can be heard in the background:]
...Flowers of the night, come to me and save me from my Dark doom,
If you can hear me, for Darkness is the same as deafness,
and they are ( Read more... )
...Flowers of the night, come to me and save me from my Dark doom,
If you can hear me, for Darkness is the same as deafness,
and they are ( Read more... )
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As long as their poetry is better than this, that could be fun. I mean, since we come from different worlds, there might be great poetry out there that I've never heard.
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What makes it good? I thought it had to rhyme, but the people at Kahve looked at me funny when I said that.
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What?
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Rhyme can lend a poem a sense of structure, you know. It's like a preset guideline teaching you how to read something. But it's not necessary. The poem I was reading has a strict rhyme scheme, but that's not what makes it compelling. It's the overall effect--even if some words are the most important words. It's like-- I don't know, a movie. You couldn't take out the buildup to the climax without making it not a climax anymore.
[...that's what she said?]
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That sounds really complicated.
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Some of them. You know, limericks and -- 'doggerel' is an official term for it.
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That's all new to me. That makes it sound like they're about dogs or something.
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Gee, why is that?
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Because it sounds-
Never mind.
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