[lojban-beginners] Re: metrical poetry in Lojban?

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 9/15/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> My impression is that metered poetry would be difficult
> in Lojban... especially if you're "strict" about it
> as I tend to be.
> 
> How about it? Can someone come up with a couple of good
> lines of iambic pentameter, a nice heroic couplet maybe?
> 
> I'm not too picky about male vs. female endings as long
> as they are mostly correct and there are not many extra
> syllables in the middle.

You can find a few metered and rhyming pieces in the Alice 
in Wonderland translation. Also, some sonnets, limericks
and haikus here: <http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=xorxes> 
(unfortunately the formatting of those pages was screwed up
and hasn't been fixed yet). Those are all mine, but others 
have written some too. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes