All of Cafe threads in 9 minutes

[makc]

enjoy

[harry]

G'day MakC

It sounds like a storm in a tea cup.

No magic no santa clause

Lend me your ear for a bit of carbon.

Twice as many years just to be here.

I just wasted 9 minutes.

smile,,,,,,,,,,,,but it made me smile.

[geckzilla]

Sheesh, harry, you could have had at least one rhyme in that.

[harry]

G'day geckzilla

Mate that rhymes

It's how you say it.

Speaking of rhyme

I have Talyor Dayne in the background blusting away

"With every beat of my heart"

[Orca]

G'day geckzilla

Mate that rhymes

It's how you say it.

I dunno Harry, I tried it in my best Australian accent to no avail...

[geckzilla]

None of those even qualify as half rhymes or even sound good in cadence. Harry, it's probably best for you to avoid creative literature.

[apodman]

Free verse - also known as vers libre - is a term describing various styles of poetry that are written without using a strict rhyme scheme, but still recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole.

So the coherence is in the perception of the reader.

... three major types of free verse: (1) Free iambic verse, which is an extension of the work of the Jacobean dramatists. Practitioners of this sort of free verse include: T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, and W. H. Auden. (2) Cadenced verse in the manner of Walt Whitman. (3) Free verse proper, where the discrepancies and variations of meter are centre stage.

Cadenced verse is today based on rhythmical phrases that are more irregular than those of traditional poetic meter. When it is used, it tends to follow a looser pattern than would be expected in formal verse. Free verse does away with the structuring devices of regular meter and rhyme schemes ...

Unlike prose which is nothing but rules, poetry has lots of precedent but no rules. The need for a phrase like "free verse" to denote something blanker than "blank verse" is only a symptom. A show of text is poetry when the beholder eyes it as such; harry presented an unlabeled show of text; geckzilla reviewed it as poetry, thereby making it poetry.

[bystander]

Unlike prose which is nothing but rules

The rules of prose are nothing more than the rules of language. While different genre of prose might have specific rules, prose as a whole has only the rules of the language in which it is written, and even those are not strictly enforced.

Prose is writing that resembles everyday speech. The word "prose" is derived from the Latin prosa, which literally translates to "straightforward". Prose is adopted for the discussion of facts and topical reading, as it is often articulated in free form writing style.
...
Prose generally lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme which is typical of poetry; instead it is composed of full sentences, usually divided into paragraphs, and then smaller segments known as meta-paragraphs.

A show of text is poetry when the beholder eyes it as such; harry presented an unlabeled show of text; geckzilla reviewed it as poetry, thereby making it poetry.

This entire forum is mostly prose. I'm glad Harry's text above is now poetry, because I would hate to call it prose.

[geckzilla]

Well, he shouldn't get into prose, either. I know if Harry wrote a book, every few paragraphs would start with "G'day" ("from the land of ozzzzz" optional) and at least a third of it would be hyperlinks referencing other authors' prose. The links may or may not have much to do with what he's trying to say with the current chapter, either. And you know his use of commas wouldn't get him any brownie points, either.

[harry]

G'day Orca

Mate you need to stand on your head.

If that does not work, than drink water while you sing.

We come from the land down under.

[harry]

G'day geckzilla

Mate, the words kind of came out of the 9 min video.

Your right I should stay away from poetry.

My wife pays me not to write poems.