little kittie fangies
tiny teeth, so smol, wherewith
yr petting arm to nom
@aescling probably should have started this with an unstressed syllable, like “those tiny teeth”
@aescling this couplet is almost in common metre (a line of iambic tetrameter followed by a line of iambic trimeter). but the first foot isn’t an iamb (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable). adding a determiner easily fixes this, so you get :—
those TINy TEETH, so SMOL, whereWITH
yr PETting ARM to NOM
which is a little more regular and expected
@aescling add another couplet whose final line rhymes with “nom” and you have a neat little ballad stanza
its tiny teeth, so smol, wherewith
yr petting arm to nom;
the cat of flame, with æsc its name:
so femme and yet so tom.
as one example
@aescling would you like to
@Lady not particularly
@aescling that's a mood
@aescling anyway if you want an objective external opinion about how an educated stranger might interpret your gender, i would say devoid of context you read as a somewhat closeted somewhat young trans ♀, so take that how you will
@aescling i just said femme in the poem though because it made a nice æsthetic contrast with tom
@Lady ngl it really threw me off lol
@aescling may it one day be as boring to you as the alternatives
@Lady not sure what you mean?
@aescling not sure i can explain lmao
@Lady do i come off as femme somehow