A game of haiku
Form a beautiful poem
Inspire forever – [Author’s Description]
Writer’s Block (Christopher Schulte)
Posted by Terry
on May 1, 2013
A game of haiku
Form a beautiful poem
Inspire forever – [Author’s Description]
The last line of the description is six syllables.
I’m stumped. In-spi-re? I-nsp-ire? In-sp-ire? Ins-pi-re? Not trying to be funny, this sort of thing keeps me up nights.
It’s debated on how many syllables are in “inspire,” two or three. Merriam-Webster said two but the way it is voiced depends on the accent (I happen to say it with two).
Ahh, I can hear it now, thanks — if you lean onto the “er” at the end that’s a third syllable.
(You can choose to think of it as a match either for “on fire” or for “go higher”. In my accent all three are the same length, but I’m nonetheless only likely to intuit an extra syllable with “higher,” just because of the orthography — or, more specifically, because an -er suffix usually adds a clear extra syllable. So…either count seems reasonable enough? Also, this is a silly thing for Helmet to bother nitpicking about. Neat little game.)
BIRD DEIFY EAR
WEAK GUEST KNOW PAPER BAMBOO
UNSEAL TOGETHER
YEARN POWER WEST LEAGUE
DISCUSS NARRATIVE SULTRY
ALCOHOL PROSPER
TRAVEL PROTECT TIME
CORRECT SIDEWAYS HAPPINESS
POSSESS ALCOHOL
Words of wisdom.
wait haiku evil
power admit bamboo sad
suffering strange world