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Medal Worthy
There once lived a poet, secluded.
Who thought long and hard and concluded:
I won’t do what I’m told,
I’ll rhyme to get gold!
The truth is: he’s largely deluded.
Who thought long and hard and concluded:
I won’t do what I’m told,
I’ll rhyme to get gold!
The truth is: he’s largely deluded.
Unfortunately, I'll have to reiterate again that meta entries (especially entries about the Writeoff itself) tend not to be my cup of tea. I'm probably a lot more sensitive to it than the average around here, so feel free to take it with a grain of salt.
In terms of construction, this is a well put-together limerick. I liked your use of the limerick's well-known structure to gently change the emphasis on certain stress syllables, especially in line 3. It helps give the whole thing more of a spoken-word feel.
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In terms of construction, this is a well put-together limerick. I liked your use of the limerick's well-known structure to gently change the emphasis on certain stress syllables, especially in line 3. It helps give the whole thing more of a spoken-word feel.
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>>Bachiavellian
I've been more lenient than usual with meta this time because I think the prompt put something of a wrench in it. Most of the time, the prompt gives at least a hint of a topic, but in this case, if you take it as a topic then you're writing about writing from the very beginning. If you want to make it reliably not read as having meta implications, then you have to actively push against that, and doing that kind of detailed stage-setting without bogging down is harder for poetry than for prose. Contrariwise, if you take the prompt as structural, especially with the obvious interpretation of “any format with no rhyme scheme”, then you have much less to start with than you usually do, because that's so broad.
For a one-day event when people have other things to do, that's a lot of extra steering to ask the author to do. This crop of entries reads strangely to me overall, and I think that might be why.
I've been more lenient than usual with meta this time because I think the prompt put something of a wrench in it. Most of the time, the prompt gives at least a hint of a topic, but in this case, if you take it as a topic then you're writing about writing from the very beginning. If you want to make it reliably not read as having meta implications, then you have to actively push against that, and doing that kind of detailed stage-setting without bogging down is harder for poetry than for prose. Contrariwise, if you take the prompt as structural, especially with the obvious interpretation of “any format with no rhyme scheme”, then you have much less to start with than you usually do, because that's so broad.
For a one-day event when people have other things to do, that's a lot of extra steering to ask the author to do. This crop of entries reads strangely to me overall, and I think that might be why.
I'm going to agree with >>Light_Striker in that this prompt feels less like inspiration and more like instructions, so it's going to be harder to find any sort of message related to the prompt. You can be meta and refer to the non-rhyming, or you can just avoid rhymes and write whatever. There's really no insight to be had.
Limericks often get mangled in the meter, and this one's no exception, but for a bit of observational humor about the prompt, it's fine. It's also clearly not something the author would have any intention of spiffing up afterward, so there's also not really any critique to be made.
Limericks often get mangled in the meter, and this one's no exception, but for a bit of observational humor about the prompt, it's fine. It's also clearly not something the author would have any intention of spiffing up afterward, so there's also not really any critique to be made.
When poems are self referential
It's best that the sense is sequential,
With tercets rehearsed
And verses coerced
To enhance their tangential potential.
It's best that the sense is sequential,
With tercets rehearsed
And verses coerced
To enhance their tangential potential.