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Ichingcarpenter

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16. George's sentence structure is rather cool

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Sun Apr 10, 2016, 11:13 AM

Apr 2016

first sentence

5 words then
3 words then
2 words
5 words
2 words
4 words..................etc.

Then doing syllable count.....oh never mind, I know the 17 rule but......

Its almost a pseudohaiku pr a pseudosenryu
anyway its rather neat.

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