Unusual Words and Their Uses

[ChristopherSea]

I searched rhyme scheme abcd efgd. So where are my points? Are they brownie points? Can I trade them in for a cookie?

Pretty smart. 1 cookie for you. Two cookies if you write one . . .

Octasyllabically
Christopher Sea challenged
all of us poets to
write formal verse.

Fitting ridiculous
opposite concepts like
anticontrarian -
ism , what's worse?

Ah, Dum-da-da, Dum-da-da. 'Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line consisting of just a choriamb ( ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ).'

Doesn't Octasyllabically have one too many syllables?
I'm lost...

No, it is 6 syllables - two perfect dactyls. OCTasyl LABbiccally
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Do you say it bi-cly and not bi-cal-ly? My dictionary has the latter, yielding oc-ta-syl-lab-i-cal-ly. Is Merriam-Webster wrong again? (this is why I can't do metered poetry).