well, fuck

[rone]

I just realized that the last two lines of my trocheepome don't scan. I feel like a total failure.

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[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

no no no no no! You just have to break the lines at the right place:

Trochees are the foot for me, they
fill me up with joy and glee!

This also fills the "line breaks unexpectedly in awkward places in the middle of a sentence" that is a common hallmark of great poetry. You win two ways.

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

> This also fills the "line breaks unexpectedly
> in awkward places in the middle of a sentence"
> that is a common hallmark of great poetry.

This is known by the wonderful name of "enjambment." See also: Sprung Rhythm, Alexander Pope vs. T. S. Eliot.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I thought about that, but if i do that, then it doesn't rhyme, and it still won't scan, because the last two lines combined have 15 syllables, not 16. Hell, the last line, as i wrote it, is iambic! Such cruel irony... Maybe that's the ticket, i'll just pass it off as a post-postmodern commentary on the prison of scansion.