[quote=@Etcetera] Your rhythm is off and it's not meaningful because you wrote it to write it. AP English is a paradox in itself. [/quote] I agree. [quote=@whizzball1] But I didn't write it to write it. An idea actually did pop up in my head, which is why I decided to put a stopwatch on myself to see how long it'd take me to make that idea into a poem. Also, it's iambic pentameter all the way through, except for the omission of one syllable at the beginning of the first and last (Never is it any less than mere) line. There's more than sixteen syllables in some lines of the poem, so I can't figure out how to say it. [/quote] It's written, and I'm not sure what you call this, but the line pattern is ABCBBB. The A and C have sixteen syllables and the Bs merely need to rhyme.