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in theory
Topic: Favourite rhyming schemes..?
ABAB is so common on fictionpress, it's everywhere. Does anyone else like to play with structure, deliberately? Without going over the top (whatever that means), can poetry be more "original" if the bones of it don't look like everyone else's?

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#1 Mar 27th 2007, 4:56am
Inkling of Tears
the ABAB always annoys me because it's so juvenile. i like to play around with rhyming within lines, inexact rhymes, and just weird patterns.
#2 Jun 01st 2007, 10:28pm
in theory
yeah I agree, e.e cummings is one of my faves just because he did that
#3 Jun 06th 2007, 9:05am
my poetic lie sense
i think the rhyming scheme just comes naturally with the poem。。

i try to experiment with everything， but i do generelly like simple rhyming of the abab variety

#4 Jun 12th 2007, 4:13am
Miriam Doyle
Limericks rock! I'm also a big fan of Edmund Spenser and have tried to write in his style before, but failed spectacularly. His poems have quite a weird structure, but I always wonder how he managed to write so much and keep to an exact scheme without going nuts in the process.
#5 Jun 16th 2007, 2:26pm

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