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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
At this point, manuals in verse are so uncommon that I think it might be fun to write one
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Writing "serious" books (philosophy, books about farming, tracts on religion, etc) in verse was common in the ancient world. Lots of example in both Latin and Greek. I agree that it's a shame it's no longer done - it's so much "classier" to write a farming manual in dactylic hexameter verse
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