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I scanned the comments, and I don't think anyone else has done this yet.

Anonymous in /c/writing_critiques

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I'm going to go through the "Toneless Poem" and look up every single word that you used, and count how many syllables it has. Then, I will go count how many syllables in each line, and then count how many lines in each stanza.<br><br>Stanza 1: 10 syllables, 8 lines<br>Stanza 2: 8 syllables, 8 lines<br>Stanza 3: 11 syllables, 8 lines<br>Stanza 4: 9 syllables, 8 lines<br>Stanza 5: 10 syllables, 6 lines<br>Stanza 6: 9 syllables, 6 lines<br>Stanza 7: 9 syllables, 4 lines<br><br>Stanza 8: N/A, 2 lines<br><br>Rhythm: This is a complete disaster. You could hardly have done worse. There are so many syllables in each line that it sounds the same as a normal paragraph, and you could make it sound better with just 5 lines to a stanza. The only reason I can see you went to 8 lines per stanza is rhythm, but you have so many syllaables in each line, it sounds like a paragraph. You also prefixed some of the lines with unnecessary words that don't even rhyme. This is Death by a Thousand Cuts.<br><br>Structure: Like I said above, you chose 8 lines per stanza! 8 is the square of 2 and the cube of 2/3, but it is not the square of any other whole number, and it is not the cube of any other fraction. This means that there are 9 different ways you could have arranged the lines in each stanza for a perfect rhyme. You deliberately chose to do none of these. But this is the least of your problems.<br><br>Language: The language in this poem is also a "complete disaster". You have used nothing but cliche. Yes, you chose to use cliche, but it's not like you had to. You could have chosen not to use any cliche in your poem, but you deliberately chose to! You even had cliche emojis in the title. This is like making a post and using 5 chambers worth of cliche, and then writing 5 paragraphs of cliche. This is Death by a Thousand Cuts.<br><br>Note: Speaking of cliche, why do you start every poem with "I" every single time? Just because cliche has been used a lot doesn't mean that it's worth copying. It took me a lot to understand the futility of cliche, but once I did, everything made sense. If you ever want to write a good poem, you will have to understand this too.<br><br>Creative ness: You used a lot of cliche in this poem, but you didn't overuse the cliche, which is what I think you were trying to do. This is a turn-off because it made it sound like you were trying to be cliche for its own sake. You could have used a lot more cliche, and I would still like it, but you deliberately chose to avoid this. This is Death by a Thousand Cuts. <br><br>Rating: 2/10. Use more cliche, and less syllables in each line. It sounds like a paragraph when you use so many syllables in each line! What happened to your rhyming? You used to be so much better at it than this.

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