You are 'regularly metric verse'. This can take many forms, including heroic couplets, blank verse, and other iambic pentameters, for example. It has not been used much since the nineteenth century; modern poets tend to prefer rhyme without meter, or even poetry with neither rhyme nor meter.

You appreciate the beautiful things in life--the joy of music, the color of leaves falling, the rhythm of a heartbeat. You see life itself as a series of little poems. The result (or is it the cause?) is that you are pensive and often melancholy. You enjoy the company of other people, but they find you unexcitable and depressing. Your problem is that regularly metric verse has been obsolete for a long time.
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I took the readability test (found via Ann Althouse). Here are my results:

Gunning Fog Index 7.49
Flesch Reading Ease 72.29
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 4.70

This means that my blog is written at anywhere between a fifth and eighth grade reading level. I am actually quite proud of that result. My mission here, as in my legal career, is to keep the prose short, sweet, and simple.

I can certainly keep up with pretentious and wordy authors. After all, based on the generalist nature of my college education and subsequent career, I have both a wide and deep vocabulary. Learning how to read and write in Latin and German also blessed me with a working knowledge of truly good grammar.

But none of that is an excuse to "show off" and make my writing unreadable.

How does your blog score?

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Take the quiz at dicepool.com

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I own you, Llamabutchers and Ted.

On the other hand, it looks like Random has a slight edge against me.

I could defeat Kathy only through my superior strength.

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1 LOL No doubt. When I did mine, the result was so weak that I didn't even post it. I'm like Paris Hilton with a flashlight duct taped to my head or something.

Posted by: Ted at April 15, 2005 07:04 AM (blNMI)

2 That was very funny. And I bet the agility edge would be different depending on the terrain.

Posted by: RP at April 15, 2005 08:15 AM (LlPKh)

3 TexasBestGrok has a slight edge over Owlish Mutterings, but OwlishMutterings stomps Texas Best Grok into a slightly damp pulp.

Posted by: owlish at April 15, 2005 09:19 AM (sBj9U)

4 Heh. Girls fight dirty, though, so don't count too much on that superior strength. I have four brothers. Everything I learned, I learned because they made the mistake of putting me in a headlock.

Posted by: Kathy at April 15, 2005 11:59 PM (RFVZA)

5 Bwahahaha, I win! The blob with claws defeats the wanna-be Godzilla! (Wasn't that a bad Japanese movie in the 70's?...Godzilla versus The Blob!) I only beat you on strength though...

Posted by: Rhianna at April 18, 2005 08:21 AM (4FppA)

6 Never can tell what will strike peoples' fancy on the Internet. Wow. Glad you all enjoyed playing. Rhianna, you only win with those space characters in your name ;-) "atexanabroad" loses 2 out of 3 to TexasBestGrok. Heh.

Posted by: JohnL at April 19, 2005 03:16 PM (YVul2)

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I love LEGOs. And I love pipe organs. So I absolutely loved this custom LEGO church.

Check out all 35 photos documenting the project here. I've left you a sample of the organ in the extended entry.

(Via The Corner).
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