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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.
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How so? A 6-line fib consists of 20 syllables in all, and ends with a line of 8 syllables. 1-1-2-3-5-8.
I
don’t
think it
would still be
a fib if you were
to reassemble it as two
IP lines, rhyming or not — who’d know it was a fib?
Example: how would anyone identify the following as a fib?
A fib is way too facile, I suppose,
if all you do with it is line-break prose.
Anyway who says every IP line has to have exactly ten syllables?