Right, this exercise was 16 lines of iambic pentameter. With added incentive of 5 points for trochaic and pyrrhic substitutions, 2 points for enjambments, and 2 points for 'feminine' (i.e. unstressed) endings.
As a little conceit to justify using feminine endings in every line (thus cheaply boosting my score), I wrote about a woman. Namely the intergalactic bounty hunter babe, Samus Aran, heroine of the Metroid series of games. I reckon this gets a respectable score of 123. (Again, score doesn't denote quality. Just effort to include new techniques that may or may not be appropriate). Anyway, here's my poem, dedicated to the ideal woman...
Samus the mighty, awesome, kickass lady,
Fighting the evils of a dark, corrupted
And lonely universe. Oh, how I marvel
Your strange ability to morph your slender,
Proportioned form into a ball so tiny,
Round and compact. Where do you keep your missiles?
Where do you keep your bombs? Questions encompass
Your great existence. Questions lacking answers.
Monsters abound: insectoid pirates roaming
Through space's outer reaches in a vicious
And brutal quest for total domination;
Ruled by the Mother Brain but led by Ridley;
Last but by no means least, you face the Metroids -
Eponymous, impervious and deadly...
Upgrade your super freezing shot! And also
Your screw attack! Now fly your ship so funky.
I'm starting to appreciate the compact and concise nature of poetry. I feel I managed to convey quite a lot of information in these 16 lines, as well as an impression of what the Metroid universe and gameplay is about.
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Hey this is awesome and i can sort of follow the trajectory and progress
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