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Rhymes With Pathetic

By nature, zetetic, he doubted the yetic, but xenogenetic? That just seemed absurd. A known workaholic, scoured feeds from Videtics, but was unsympathetic, in a word. At best, theoretic, and in large part, synthetic, only the rabietic were on board. Tilting towards quixotic, their fevered ravings, phrenetic, though onomatopoetic, eschewed the noetic, impaled themselves on truth’s sword. A parrot’s mimetic, much like Loch Ness limnetics, ignored body kinetics, claimed pre-Japhetic disperse. Yet still more idiotic, seizing the hypothetic, their case for genetics made worse! But like all true fanatics, the more so, emphatic, they're left with a docetic sasquatch. Finding all copasetic, they get rather bathetic when antithetic folk question their watch! ---------- So, the original goal was a monorhyme using the '-etic' ending. Then, I realized I might be able to use one on every line, from Z..A, but I made a few concessions along the way, departing from '-etic' a few times. And I added a little rhyme, using the '-etic' words within the lines... And if the storyline is a little thin, don't wreck my aesthetic... zetetic - skeptical, proceeding by inquiry yetic - pertaining to all things Yeti :-) Videtics is a real company that does AI analysis of video feeds rabietic - relating to rabies limnetics - pertaining to the deeper, open waters of a lake Japhetic - pertaining to one of Noah's sons, so, basically, antediluvian docetic - an early heresy suggesting only a spiritual body bathetic - effusively emotional

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Date: 1/9/2023 8:04:00 PM
Bravo to this ABC poem! Wow!
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Date: 1/8/2023 7:11:00 PM
Wow... rhyming didactic! :)
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Jeff Kyser
Date: 1/8/2023 7:24:00 PM
Silly, really, kinda hoped I could do better :-(

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