#A Sonnet.
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@mellow otter @green belfry
Why can't I mention Ish
Been a while guys!
How do I get @ishhhhh120000 here
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 
Either they changed usernames or had left the server at some point
I wouldn't like to go into too much depth as it would ruin it—but, the central idea is questioning about man destroying beauty in the modern world with a few morality checks here and there
Ah, right! I did went into a bit of overthinking of the stanzas without totally considering the final couplet I'm sorry about it
Also I'll be honest I did feel like the final couple is an underlying key to knowing about the poem, but morning had hit me with mind lag a bit there to let those lines sink in 😭
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)
Did you mean to have the lines have their starting words go in order "when" "and" "and" "will" "when" "and" "and" "will"?
I feel like starting two consecutive long lines with "and" is weak
long-ish
But language is 🤌
On a first read, the idea seems to be that nothing lasts forever
But I like the way you said it in the poem
:)
Yeah—syntactic parallelism.
It demonstrates the point of the poem.
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)
Trimeter and tetrameter would be short/quick; hexameter and heptameter would be long/slow