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Unread 04-17-2006, 07:55 PM
Daniel Pereira Daniel Pereira is offline
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A 6-line fib ends with twenty syllables, so you could break it up into two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter.

The next time it divides by ten is with a seventeen-line fib, the terminal line of which would contain 1397 syllables. You could break that fib up into 377 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter (you'd need a triplet in there or something).

Of course, with feminine endings and the like, everything changes.

Ogden Nash would've loved these things.
-Dan
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