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32 Post author: gwern 02 May 2012 02:03PM

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Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 02 May 2012 07:46:04PM 6 points [-]

This is cute, but I think it would have been worth trying to salvage the rhyme scheme. (Maybe "... all the missed frills"/"pills" and "And the Science helps most"/"post"?) You also missed a huge opportunity by not starting a line earlier with the words "Amateur science" (sound-alike with Aperture).

Comment author: gwern 02 May 2012 08:14:46PM 3 points [-]

Amateur was a major omission, yeah. I don't think 'helps most/post' really works because it diverges too much. 'Done' is hard to rhyme with, but checking a rhyming dictionary, I realized there was a perfect rhyme: 'fun'. As in, 'And the Science was fun / and you make a neat post'. The rhythms scan, the rhyme is perfect, and it makes sense by reinforcing 'neat'.