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If you sound like Seuss, give your lines more juice!

Use longer line lengths. Dr. Seuss used fairly short line lengths with rhymes sometimes popping out every fourth syllable. Using longer lines tends to separate the rhymes more. Many poets and poetic forms seem to average between eight and fourteen syllables to the line.

 
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