[s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] JessicaCooper submits p86

[Alex Truelsen <dichotomousmind@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is very well done and you probably deserve some sort of reward for your 
effort despite not fitting into an existing form, but there is a very good 
reason I included non-iambic sonnets in the allowed forms, and that is that 
iambic pentameter is a bitch. I personally have never managed to create a 
sonnet in actual iambic pentameter, despite my best efforts. This, of 
course, is why managing to do so gets you a bonus and the right to act 
superior. So, I will be voting against this proposal on the grounds that it 
would needlessly make specialty proposals just a little more inaccessible.

[[BvS]]

On 5/13/05, automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <automailer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> JessicaCooper has submitted a new proposal, p86.
> 
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> Proposal 86/0: Sonnets need iambs, please!
> A Standard Proposal by JessicaCooper
> Last modified on nweek 88, nday 5
> 
> I know not whence your definitions came,
> Nor where you learned your literary stuff,
> But you malign the Bard of England's name
> By not researching sonnet form enough.
> 
> 'Twas Petrarch who first wrote in sonnet style
> And set its meter how it's always been:
> Five iambs needs each line to stand the trial
> Of what makes sonnets sonnet-like; and then
> 
> The rhyme scheme has a plethora of choice.
> Shakespearean's the one in this par'digm,
> For English has not what Petrarch enjoys:
> All reg'lar romance language verbs can rhyme.
> 
> So let the definition read like this:{{
> ABABCDCDEF
> EFGG a sonnet's rhyme scheme is;
> Five iambs do comprise each line by def,
> 
> And fourteen lines exact should sonnets get.}}
> Where this rule now says just "sonnet" plain,
> Let's make it say "Shakespearean sonnet,"
> And where that latter term is now in play,
> 
> Expunge it from rule three-dash-nine-oh's text,
> And that all sonnets are Shakespearean
> The genechip section should instead reflect.
> Thus updated, the form the rule'd be in:
> 
> {{2.C: Shakespearean Sonnet Proposals
> A Shakespearean Sonnet Proposal is a proposal which is in Shakespearean 
> sonnet form. ABABCDCDEFEFGG a sonnet's rhyme scheme is; five iambs do 
> comprise each line by def, and fourteen lines exact should sonnets get. 
> Whether the title of a Shakespearean Sonnet Proposal is included in the 
> Shakespearean sonnet is up to the creator of the Shakespearean Sonnet 
> proposal. If a Shakespearean Sonnet Proposal passes, its creator is awarded 
> 14 Genechips and the right to act very superior for one nweek. If a Sonnet 
> Proposal fails, its creator is awarded seven Genechips. If the Shakespearean 
> sonnet was identical to a Shakespearean Sonnet created in a previous 
> proposal, no Genechips are awarded.}}
> [[If that makes the proposal not in iambic pentameter, that kind of sucks, 
> but the text really needs to be included for clarity's sake.]]
> 
> Good luck to you, aspiring sonnetteers;
> I hope that you amend two cee in fear.
> 
> [[I know this is much too long to be a sonnet. I tried, but there was no 
> way to fit it all.]]
> 
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