#A Sonnet.

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mellow otter
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@mellow otter @green belfry

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Why can't I mention Ish

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Been a while guys!

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How do I get @ishhhhh120000 here

nimble totem
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Gosh this is quite a mind's trick for me where I can kinda see what the poem may mean but at the same time I don't? Hehe

There are unique metaphors around here, too, and the poem's touching to some extent. It's like there's a theme of 'when all is said and done, is there anything more?' or some sort, but I can't totally tell, especially with the mysterious question of it if will 'all of us' be 'caught not' by something.

A question of the probability that we no longer get caught by things? It's pretty vague, but very intriguing though.

Overall, the piece itself is intriguing (in a good way ofc), because to my impression of the poem, it lingers in the haze where it could be a little open to interpretation but at the same time intentionally ambiguous to its theme/topic.

Or maybe there are obvious clues here that I haven't caught on from this yet, even if I'll take the context of this being about juxtaposition of old and new buildings NoizeLoves

nimble totem
mellow otter
nimble totem
mellow otter
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Yeah, I have less experience with the Shakespearean, so I was trying to make the couplet really display the question (usually it would be the message, or the answer—but we do not have that)

green belfry
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Did you mean to have the lines have their starting words go in order "when" "and" "and" "will" "when" "and" "and" "will"?

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I feel like starting two consecutive long lines with "and" is weak

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long-ish

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But language is 🤌

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On a first read, the idea seems to be that nothing lasts forever

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But I like the way you said it in the poem

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:)

mellow otter
mellow otter
# green belfry long-ish

I wouldn't call pentameter long—it is the norm for English poetry (it matches the average size of a breath so it can be said comfortably)

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Trimeter and tetrameter would be short/quick; hexameter and heptameter would be long/slow