
Conlangery #21: Poetry
Conlangery Podcast
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How to Write a Poem
The longer a poetic tradition exists, the more stunts people come up with. Different languages have different ways of fudging their meter or syllable counts. In English, there's a lot of all these alighted words like air instead of ever and all that. And then Spanish, you blend the vowels which is actually something that occurs in normal speeches.
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