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Cataclysm Beta Contest Haiku Voting Thread: Day 4!
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Arcinis
Deathwing,banished from home/Has returned to destroy us/will we take a stand?
I love the 7/7/5 format you did there.
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Carnak
Why is Why Can't I / Have Alexstrasza / As a Mount? (Sakurachan713)'s Entry still there?
My entry was removed for the same reason, invalid amount of syllables.
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Arcinis
Why is Why Can't I / Have Alexstrasza / As a Mount? (Sakurachan713)'s Entry still there?
My entry was removed for the same reason, invalid amount of syllables.
No that's correct. 3/5/3 format. Perhaps you made a typo in yours?
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gorden23
Yeah, I've given up hope on even getting mine selected. I've put in four and none of them will show... I have a terribly unlucky habit of winning. Gratz to all those who have been chosen and won.
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kadenkoba
Why haven't they updated the contest yet? Day 4 was supposed to have come and gone already.
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Arcinis
Well as I said before, several things are wrong with this contest anyway, one being different websites having different takes on syllables
I'd call that more a problem with people not knowing how to speak, and relying on websites rather than dictionaries, than it being a problem with the contest.
Besides, other forms of English poetry are just as much about knowing how to speak. If you want to go metrical, you need to know about strong and weak stresses, and that scudding (that's the technical word for forcing a stress on a normally non-stressed word) is either done deliberately or carelessly -- usually carelessly. Either you do that or you go into free verse, which has its own constructs: some of those being, surprise surprise, syllabic.
Besides, you'd still run into the same problem. People who have a proper appreciation of poetry would be mortified at the rubbish that would get picked as the winning stuff: Limericks and basic full rhyme triumphing over anything with careful weight to particular words; phyrric and spondaic substitutions; trochaic beginnings; enjambment; etc. etc.
Haiku is not English poetry, sir. It's origins are found in Japan.
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vikii
u expect them to count but they expect you to read... in the rules it meantioned u could have 3/5/3 too
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