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Originally Posted by HarryT
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  . |
I love elaborate writing from the days of the pre-prosaic, which is why I once recast Victorian instructions on the crafting of doll clothes as a set of quintrains at the beginning of an early novel.
You have to use lots of hudibrastic rhymes and a singsong meter if you want it to sound like demoralized Robert Browning!