I know it from prose, too. Paolini really doesn't know how to use this.
Most of my writing experience is literal poetry, honestly. I have about a dozen poems and two or three short stories before this fic.
Poetry is a lesson in intentionality in writing. In how the difference between the right word and the almost-right word, even though they be synonyms, is the difference between a cat (the animal) and a "cat" (The two-hulled boat) and a "cat"(apult). In how important it is to control the length of your sentences, to edit and revise, to decide on phrasing based on how and where and when and if to rhyme, and when to place breaks between segments to retain audience attention.
One of my favorite tricks is to establish a rhyme scheme, and then deliberately break it so the odd line out sticks in my audiences' minds.
Now, I didn't take this level of care with this fic (I feel like it would be even better if I had). But there's reflections of how I've practiced writing before in it.
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Most of my writing experience is literal poetry, honestly. I have about a dozen poems and two or three short stories before this fic.
Poetry is a lesson in intentionality in writing. In how the difference between the right word and the almost-right word, even though they be synonyms, is the difference between a cat (the animal) and a "cat" (The two-hulled boat) and a "cat"(apult). In how important it is to control the length of your sentences, to edit and revise, to decide on phrasing based on how and where and when and if to rhyme, and when to place breaks between segments to retain audience attention.
One of my favorite tricks is to establish a rhyme scheme, and then deliberately break it so the odd line out sticks in my audiences' minds.
Now, I didn't take this level of care with this fic (I feel like it would be even better if I had). But there's reflections of how I've practiced writing before in it.