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Re: Errmm....

This depends on your critic. A pedantic poetry critic (and they can be very pedantic indeed) would point out that the bot has violated the rhyming rules of sonnets*, appears to be writing in iambic pentameter but if it is it got it wrong, and has scansion problems. These don't necessarily detract from the quality of a poem, but if those who taught me to write poems saw this, they'd fail the student (they would correct anything I turned in and make me rewrite it while telling me that any poem by a respected poet that I didn't like was wonderful and proved my stupidity, which might be why I don't like poetry so much).

* The sonnet rhyming rules are ABABCDCDEFEFGG, but this did ABABCDCDEEFGGF. I think the FGGF part actually sounds nicer, but it's not a sonnet.

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