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Unread 08-12-2024, 04:56 PM
David Elliot Eisenstat David Elliot Eisenstat is offline
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A loose triolet. Like Yves, I’m not sold on the transformation; it seems overly compressed.

With only five different lines in the strict form, syllables are—by my lights—at a premium, and too many of these are spent on rhetoric. But for formal constraints, L3 could lose “at first”, “just”, and “silly” without compromising the meaning. L5’s “suggesting” and “always” seem inefficient.
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