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Meter is like math in my mind and I cannot go down that path of confusion again. I remember the pain of multiplication and division, I dismiss the prosody of stresses or not. Syllable count is my specialty, as easy as 1-2-3 A-B-C. Where is my calculator? Where is my dictionary?

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Date: 10/26/2023 2:23:00 PM
and lo, what waits before us....a syllable counting thesaurus
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Chetta Achara
Date: 10/26/2023 2:35:00 PM
Indeed. One more tool of the trade!

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