# Sigh **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360 "2006-06-27T17:07:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/1 "2006-06-27T17:07:43Z")
I often find myself wishing That I could respond to posts in verse Sometimes the desire is overwhelming but I think it would piss people off So I don’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/2 "2006-06-27T17:11:14Z")
Freqnuently, I want to make things rhyme But find that I seldom have the time. ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/3 "2006-06-27T17:20:35Z")
I’ve done this before on another forum a long time ago it was fun until someone used the phrase ‘I’m a poet and I didn’t know it’ he was promptly flamed I wonder if history shall repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/4 "2006-06-27T17:24:03Z")
Ahem. I’m a poet and didn’t… ow! who threw that?? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/5 "2006-06-27T19:36:35Z")
What do you think might be the point? You’d be better off just rolling another joint. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/6 "2006-06-27T20:22:30Z")
Writing in verse is really pretty easy, with time to rehearse and no fear of being cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/7 "2006-06-27T21:13:25Z")
The question really is Do you need to rhyme Or are you writing In blank verse? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/8 "2006-06-27T22:54:16Z")
No more rhymes, I mean it! ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/9 "2006-06-27T22:56:57Z")
Responding in verse? There’s some things you just don’t do That is one of them ---
**Author:** ![i\_am\_flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/87869e/32.png) [@i\_am\_flash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_am_flash)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/10 "2006-06-28T00:46:49Z")
In writing poems I often find I spend many hours At a time Yet what i think It really is Is starting new lines Just like this ---
**Author:** ![Corporate\_Hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/11 "2006-06-28T00:55:41Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] No more rhymes, I mean it! [/QUOTE] anybody want a peanut? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/12 "2006-06-28T01:21:24Z")
Anything Can be free verse If you just break it up into separate lines Like this. Presto: Instant poet! ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/13 "2006-06-28T17:45:47Z")
[QUOTE=FlyingRamenMonster] I often find myself wishing That I could respond to posts in verse Sometimes the desire is overwhelming but I think it would piss people off So I don’t do it. [/QUOTE] So you say. But do you really mean You find your thoughts much more Serene In rhyme? Well, I’m agreed. No piss off here. Proceed. –Beck ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/14 "2006-06-29T02:40:12Z")
I don’t post in rhyme But from time to time I have Haikued quite badly ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/15 "2006-06-29T02:52:17Z")
I adore free verse. Something about the fractured meter Seems to echo how things work inside my head. It makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/16 "2006-06-29T05:35:08Z")
```auto If I hammer the space bar or even the return key I'm the next e e cummings ``` It’s not often but I will admit here That I’ll start writing a post that’s in meter But I’ll spend so much time Trying to think of a rhyme That I say “Fuck it!” and hit the deleter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/17 "2006-06-29T07:20:28Z")
If a man rhymes when replying to others he’d better be sure of his forum – I mean for Cafe Society, Humble Opinion or Mundane and Pointless Stuff, verse can be keen. But posting in General Questions is different, as rhyming your answer will make folks look twice, taking your words with a dosage of salt that has proven to cause hypertension in mice. Pitting in verse may be lacking in _gravitas_: (It is known that ring tones on cell phones make you groan.) And in Great Debates the ayes will not have it as two words that _don’t_ rhyme are “Bush” and “Capone.” In short any poster who waxes poetic needs to be able to chew what he bit. Evocative imagery, words most eidetic, offer small chance he’ll be labeled a wit. There’s no verse so clever you shouldn’t forego it some killjoy will shout (looking straight down his nose): “Away from yon keyboard, thou amateur poet, posting on _this_ board’s best left to the prose!” ---
**Author:** ![Seren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Seren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seren)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/18 "2006-06-29T14:51:10Z")
[QUOTE=The King of Soup] “Away from yon keyboard, thou amateur poet, posting on _this_ board’s best left to the prose!” [/QUOTE] You are a great writer. And you have _way_ too much free time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/19 "2006-06-30T04:06:39Z")
[QUOTE=Seren] And you have _way_ too much free time. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Sadly, not true. The only hard part is, after you’re done, to quit thinking and talking in double dactyls all the time. Eventually, of course, someone will hit you hard enough to snap you out of the pattern, but ideally you want to break the habit before it comes to that. For the Straight Dope, though, I suspect only trochaic tetrameter will do: Cecil Adams, Straight Dope Maven, Thought deep thoughts while he was shavin’ Of the need for Daylight Savin’ _There’s_ a column worth engravin’ At his desk (so like a raven). And thank you for the compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360/20 "2006-06-30T04:50:32Z")
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. –G.K. Chesterton [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh/362360.md?page=2)