The Day in Verse, Constraint #66
For an entire day, answer every question in iambic pentameter… ten syllables. No exception. At the supermarket checkout too.
Reference artist(s): Georges Perec.
The protocol
- Brush up on iambic pentameter the night before: ten syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed.
- From the morning on, apply the constraint. For each question asked, mentally construct your response in ten syllables before speaking.
- Don’t warn anyone unless you absolutely must in a critical professional context.
- Write down the best exchanges… those that came naturally, those that surprised your listeners.
- At the end of the day, write a “verse report”… a poem of twelve lines in iambic pentameter about your day. Submit on the site.
Variants
- Answer in haikus instead of iambic pentameter.
- Answer only with questions, always in iambic pentameter.
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