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verse-craft
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a poem", "write a limerick", "write a sonnet", "haiku", "villanelle", "ballad", "song lyrics", "a song for my character", "a rhyme", "rhyming couplets", "does this scan", "check the meter", "fix the rhythm of this poem", "rhyme scheme", "iambic pentameter", "a prophecy in verse", "a nursery rhyme", "rhyming picture book", or wants verse written, scanned, or revised, whether inside a story project or as a standalone poem. NOT for accidental rhymes in prose (use line-editing) or permissions for quoting someone else's poem or song lyrics (use editorial-review).
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# Verse Craft
## Overview
Write, scan, and revise verse: fixed forms such as the limerick, sonnet,
haiku, and villanelle; ballads and song lyrics; rhyming picture-book
text; and verse that lives inside a story (a character's song, a
prophecy, a skipping rhyme). Every claim that a line scans is shown, not
asserted: the agent marks the stresses, counts the syllables, and labels
the rhyme scheme so the author can check the work. The author's poem is
the standard; propose changes, do not rewrite it wholesale.
## Prerequisites