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>>9656203
The little red x's are things I got wrong per line. The first column is stress followed by number of feet, then meter.

>>9656185
There's some flexibility in how you stress monosyllables.

The problem is stress is pretty subjective. And of course while reading a poem aloud one doesn't fully intone every stressed syllable, you have to strike a balance between attention to meter and the natural flow of spoken language, lest you sound like a loon.

Personally I tend to downplay the importance of function words (especially determiners) in stress. For example, in the first line, I would rather transpose the stress from 'my' onto 'salt', because it sounds awkward to put the stress in a noun phrase on the possessive rather than the word that actually means something. However, it could go either way, and I don't think an online grading tool can ever be really accurate unless someone goes through every poem by hand and marks a bunch of different possibilities.

Dune
Neuromancer
Ubik
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Mr. Potter Picked the Pears

>>9656163
Your post reads like bait.

Are you, by any chance, a woman?

Also, I can't help you with those categories but I wish you good luck.

Nothing was unusual about the day it all began, I had been tending to memes as usual, I was but a simple meme farmer who had a family and farm in north west Kekistan. The weather over the last couple of days had been fairly dry and warm, luckily I had a lot of mountain dew to keep my illegal neckbeard harvesters going. I had recently been producing a lot of memes and imagine Lord Kek was very pleased with my offerings, in summary life was good…
…until I heard the hum. The hum so distant, yet becoming louder and louder by the second. At first I thought the neckbeard were hungry and that they all running to me to beg for a bowl of Doritos so I turned away to head to Dorito silo to prepare their meal, when I felt the urge to turn around. I squinted my eyes and over and I spotted the dust erupting from the God Emperor Trump’s wall seconds later I saw hordes of huge ginormous fat acceptance SJWs (referred as FASJW through the rest of this novel) breaking through the walls and roaring “LOVE TRUMPS HATE!”, out of disgust vomited there and then. After quickly recovering from this incident I spotted figures on top of the FASJWs as they got closer I noticed that they were fucking Normies!
Eventually all the wall that was visible to me was demolished and hordes of foot soldier Normies rushed through followed by the SLWs and then the fucking Cucks. It appeared to be a full-on invasion with Normies, Cucks and SJWs allied together. They eventually reached the beginning of my farm, in terror the neck beard ran away back into their basements. The Normies began trampling over my memes and heading straight for me. Any remaining untrampled memes were then infected a cancerous Tumblr memes of thing like Minions and cringey shit. I began to run to house where I informed my wife and son that Normie alliance was coming and that head to leave now. But it was too late, they had already reached my lawn. A mass amount of rage filled as I began to autistically screech “FUCKING NORMIES, GET OFF MY LAWN, REEEEEEEEEEEEE! Luckily my Wife slapped me out of it before I became too cringey and we then headed for the shitstorm cellar. However, on our way there we ambushed by Cucks who began educating us on our privilege.

Before long the Normies had arrived and began physically raping me and my wife. I looked around while this was happening trying to locate my son however he was nowhere to be seen. I yelled at one of the Normies “WHERE IS MY SON!?” They replied with “oh we’ve took him to a safe school, were his gender will be reassigned”. This news combined with the current situation enraged me. I called upon Kek to ask that he provide me with the spirit of big man Tyrone. With this I then yelled “RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE!” with the spirit of big man Tyrone, the house shook, meme cartoons hung on the wall shook and fell to the ground the Normies, SJWs and Cucks looked in disbelief as I summoned the strength to free myself from the rape. I the SANICED around the room at 60 FPS shitposting dank memes on the Normie allies. The memes carefully sources from /POL/. All of the Normies in the house suddenly dissolved in a grey liquid. I quickly ran to my Wife. She was dead. She had been raped to death. Enraged began autistically screeching but then I realised the invasion was still ongoing and that I was not safe yet. I quickly jumped out the window and dove into the nearby Mountain Dew stream, before this looked back at the house at saw it was being slowly shredded into pixels by the Normie allies at 30 FPS. When I Ianded in the stream with my eyes closed, before feeling a sharp pain to my head and then blacking out.

Is there a book that tells a story about traveling through the desert?

>>9655949
Exodus

>>9655955
Thank you friend

>>9655909
The Brothers Karamazov embodies basically the best of Dostoyevsky's works. Both are Dostoyevsky's characteristic ideals. He recycled a couple of elements throughout his works. The dream with the spider from Demons is also in A Raw Youth is the best example, because he copied it almost 1:1.

>>9655909
Myshkin was a prototype of Alyosha just as colonel rostanev was a prototype for myshkin.
You'll find lots of great writers do this. It's been said that great thinkers only have 2-3 great ideas that they continue to come back to, elaborate on and improve/clarify.

>>9655909
They're both intended to fit the holy fool archetype. It's not quite the same as recycling characters.

Myshkin and Alyosha are both quite different. Alyosha, while very idealized, is still very human, whereas Myshkin is a Christ-like figure, genuinely too pure for this world (The Idiot is basically about what happens to a purely good soul, i.e., Christ, when he's forced to live among huemans).

What about the Oxford World Classics by Higgins and Sisson?

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>>9655774
>leggendo una traduzione
lolololol

>>9655492
You know what champ?

Me too

>>9655496
*brofist upvoted haha bro xD

*men

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>>9655227
Dumb critique. Baldwin was erudite and somewhat alienated from the black community due to his "femininity" and/or faggotry. A better troll is talking about him getting pumped in the ass. Regardless, kill yourself.

you seem to have made two lines into one

>>9657297
go back there

>>9655104
when you read what this guy says, just redo it instead of criticizing it at length, oh and please try to be creative.

>>9655104

>ask for critique without offering critique of your own on another piece, shitting up the thread

>rewrite instead of offering critique, because your intelligence surpasses all else even when the story isn't your own

>reject all criticism of your work because you can explain it away as muh, muh, muh (insert bullshit excuse for bad writing)

>offer critique despite never having read a book in your life; offer advice based on how it would look in a movie