Swimmer963 comments on Politics and Awful Art - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 December 2007 03:46AM

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Comment author: Rick_Smith 27 December 2007 01:44:26PM 0 points [-]

I've always felt that constraining yourself to poetry that rhymes restricts both what you can say and the artfulness with which you can say it.

Comment author: Swimmer963 05 March 2011 06:52:04PM 0 points [-]

I've had this thought before too, but I don't think there's any overall limit on how artful rhyming poetry can be. It's just harder and more time consuming. And yeah, sometimes you come up with a beautiful line and then can't use it because it doesn't fit with the syllable count.