What do you know of poetry?” Ambrose said without bothering to turn around. “I know a limping verse when I hear it, ” I said. “But this isn’t even limping. A limp has rhythm. This is more like someone falling down a set of stairs. Uneven stairs. With a midden at the bottom.” “It is a sprung rhythm, ” he said, his voice stiff and offended. “I wouldn’t expect you to understand.” “Sprung?” I burst out with an incredulous laugh. “I understand that if I saw a horse with a leg this badly ‘sprung, ’ I’d kill it out of mercy, then burn its poor corpse for fear the local dogs might gnaw on it and die. Patrick Rothfuss
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