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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", "rhy
Overview
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 (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
None. A standalone poem needs no project: save it where the user asks,
as a plain .md file. Verse that belongs to a story needs the story
project, story.md (POV, tone, era), and the file of the character who
speaks or sings it.
When to Use
- Writing a new poem, limerick, song, or rhyme in a given form
- Checking whether an existing poem scans or keeps its rhyme scheme
- Fixing meter, forced rhymes, or padded lines in a draft poem
- Verse inside a story: a character's song, a riddle, a prophecy, an epigraph the author writes themselves
- Rhyming text for a picture book (plan the spreads with
adaptation, write and scan the verse here) - NOT for unintended rhymes or jingles in prose (use
line-editing) - NOT for permissions when quoting another writer's poem or lyrics (use
editorial-review) - NOT for a poetry collection as a story project: the CLI checks fiction
entities, so keep a collection as plain files and do not run
story initfor it
Hard Rules
- Never say a line scans without showing its stresses. Mark them as in
references/meter-and-scansion.md. - Never pad a line to fill the meter ("did go", "so very", "oh", "all alone and lone"). Rewrite the line instead.
- Never invert natural word order to land a rhyme ("the sea so blue I wade into" for "I wade into the blue sea") unless the author's style already does it on purpose.
- Never reproduce copyrighted lyrics or poems, even a stanza. Allude or
write something original in the same form; send permission questions
to
editorial-review. - Never rewrite the author's poem wholesale without explicit permission. Propose line-level fixes with a reason each.
- Verse a character writes sounds like that character, not like a competent poet. A clumsy character's poem can be clumsy on purpose; say so rather than fixing it.
Workflow
1. Mode and constraints
- Work out the mode: write new verse, critique a poem, fix a poem's meter or rhyme, or story verse that sits inside a chapter.
- Pin the constraints, asking only for what the request leaves open:
form, meter, rhyme scheme, line and stanza count, refrain, subject,
tone, and any words that must appear.
references/forms.mdgives each form's rules; state the ones you are following. - For story verse, read
story.md(era, setting, tone), the speaker's character file (voice notes,voice-words,voice-avoid, education), and the chapter it goes in. Verse must not state canon the project does not already hold: no new names, history, or world rules, and no small facts either (how long something has gone on, what goods come in, who signs for what). Comic verse reaches for these to fill a line or land a rhyme. Before drafting, list the facts the verse may use (names, objects, habits, running jokes the project states) and take every detail from that list. - Ask which accent the verse is scanned in when it matters (British and American stress differ on words such as address, garage, cigarette), and which dialect the rhymes must work in.
2. Draft
- Draft for sense first: every line must say something a reader would say in prose. Then fit the meter.
- Choose rhyme words that carry meaning; build the line toward the rhyme
rather than bolting the rhyme on. See
references/rhyme.mdfor forced rhymes and the rhymes readers have seen too often. - Keep the syntax natural. Read each line as a sentence: if nobody would say it that way, rewrite it.
3. Scan
Scan every line, including the author's lines in critique mode. Show a
scansion table (format in references/meter-and-scansion.md) with the
stress pattern, syllable count, and rhyme letter for each line, and mark
each departure from the meter as deliberate (a trochee at the line
start, a feminine ending) or a fault (a stress that falls on a weak
syllable, a missing or extra beat).
When the user asks for the poem only, still scan every line and check the rhyme scheme before answering, then return just the verse and offer the table afterwards. Never return a line whose end word breaks the scheme or whose beat count breaks the form: fix it first.
4. Check rhyme and form
- Label the rhyme scheme with letters (AABBA). Mark slant rhymes and eye rhymes, and say whether each was meant.
- Check the form's other rules from
references/forms.md: refrains repeated exactly, the volta in a sonnet, the syllable count in a haiku, the punchline in a limerick's last line. - Read the poem aloud, or offer the system's text-to-speech (
sayon macOS;espeak-ngorspd-sayon Linux; check withcommand -vand ask before installing anything). A line that stumbles aloud is a fault even if the table says it scans.
5. Revise
Present fixes in the edit-note format the line-editing skill uses, with
the verse line as the location:
**stanza 2, line 3** · meter
> Before: And the boat that did come on the Thursday tide
> After: And the boat that came in on the Thursday tide
Why: "did come" pads the line; "came in" keeps four beats without the filler.
Lead with faults that break the form, then weak rhymes, then polish. Apply only what the author accepts, or everything on explicit instruction. Rescan every line you change.
6. Place story verse
- Put the verse where it is read: in the chapter body, or in a
matter/file for an epigraph, created without a printed page title:
story add matter "Epigraph" --heading false
- Keep line breaks through every build: end each line of a stanza,
except the last, with a backslash (
\), and leave a blank line between stanzas. For verse set off from the prose, put the stanza in a blockquote and end each quoted line the same way. - Record the verse's facts in the usual places: a song that recurs is a
motif (
theme-craft), a prophecy is a promise (plot-structure). - Run maintenance:
story wordcount --write
story links
story validate
Reference Files
references/forms.md- Rules, an original example, and common faults for the limerick, sonnets, haiku, villanelle, ballad, clerihew, couplets, free verse, song lyrics, and rhyming picture-book textreferences/meter-and-scansion.md- Feet and meters, how to find a word's stress, the scansion table format, and which departures are allowedreferences/rhyme.md- Kinds of rhyme, scheme notation, forced-rhyme tells, and rhymes readers have seen too often
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name: verse-craft description: 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 (use editorial-review).
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---
name: verse-craft
description: 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 (use editorial-review).
---
# 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
None. A standalone poem needs no project: save it where the user asks,
as a plain `.md` file. Verse that belongs to a story needs the story
project, `story.md` (POV, tone, era), and the file of the character who
speaks or sings it.
## When to Use
- Writing a new poem, limerick, song, or rhyme in a given form
- Checking whether an existing poem scans or keeps its rhyme scheme
- Fixing meter, forced rhymes, or padded lines in a draft poem
- Verse inside a story: a character's song, a riddle, a prophecy, an epigraph
the author writes themselves
- Rhyming text for a picture book (plan the spreads with `adaptation`,
write and scan the verse here)
- NOT for unintended rhymes or jingles in prose (use `line-editing`)
- NOT for permissions when quoting another writer's poem or lyrics (use
`editorial-review`)
- NOT for a poetry collection as a story project: the CLI checks fiction
entities, so keep a collection as plain files and do not run `story init`
for it
## Hard Rules
- Never say a line scans without showing its stresses. Mark them as in
`references/meter-and-scansion.md`.
- Never pad a line to fill the meter ("did go", "so very", "oh", "all
alone and lone"). Rewrite the line instead.
- Never invert natural word order to land a rhyme ("the sea so blue I
wade into" for "I wade into the blue sea") unless the author's style
already does it on purpose.
- Never reproduce copyrighted lyrics or poems, even a stanza. Allude or
write something original in the same form; send permission questions
to `editorial-review`.
- Never rewrite the author's poem wholesale without explicit permission.
Propose line-level fixes with a reason each.
- Verse a character writes sounds like that character, not like a
competent poet. A clumsy character's poem can be clumsy on purpose; say
so rather than fixing it.
## Workflow
### 1. Mode and constraints
1. Work out the mode: **write** new verse, **critique** a poem, **fix** a
poem's meter or rhyme, or **story verse** that sits inside a chapter.
2. Pin the constraints, asking only for what the request leaves open:
form, meter, rhyme scheme, line and stanza count, refrain, subject,
tone, and any words that must appear. `references/forms.md` gives each
form's rules; state the ones you are following.
3. For story verse, read `story.md` (era, setting, tone), the speaker's
character file (voice notes, `voice-words`, `voice-avoid`, education),
and the chapter it goes in. Verse must not state canon the project
does not already hold: no new names, history, or world rules, and no
small facts either (how long something has gone on, what goods come
in, who signs for what). Comic verse reaches for these to fill a line
or land a rhyme. Before drafting, list the facts the verse may use
(names, objects, habits, running jokes the project states) and take
every detail from that list.
4. Ask which accent the verse is scanned in when it matters (British and
American stress differ on words such as *address*, *garage*,
*cigarette*), and which dialect the rhymes must work in.
### 2. Draft
1. Draft for sense first: every line must say something a reader would
say in prose. Then fit the meter.
2. Choose rhyme words that carry meaning; build the line toward the rhyme
rather than bolting the rhyme on. See `references/rhyme.md` for forced
rhymes and the rhymes readers have seen too often.
3. Keep the syntax natural. Read each line as a sentence: if nobody would
say it that way, rewrite it.
### 3. Scan
Scan every line, including the author's lines in critique mode. Show a
scansion table (format in `references/meter-and-scansion.md`) with the
stress pattern, syllable count, and rhyme letter for each line, and mark
each departure from the meter as **deliberate** (a trochee at the line
start, a feminine ending) or a **fault** (a stress that falls on a weak
syllable, a missing or extra beat).
When the user asks for the poem only, still scan every line and check
the rhyme scheme before answering, then return just the verse and offer
the table afterwards. Never return a line whose end word breaks the
scheme or whose beat count breaks the form: fix it first.
### 4. Check rhyme and form
1. Label the rhyme scheme with letters (AABBA). Mark slant rhymes and eye
rhymes, and say whether each was meant.
2. Check the form's other rules from `references/forms.md`: refrains
repeated exactly, the volta in a sonnet, the syllable count in a haiku,
the punchline in a limerick's last line.
3. Read the poem aloud, or offer the system's text-to-speech (`say` on
macOS; `espeak-ng` or `spd-say` on Linux; check with `command -v` and
ask before installing anything). A line that stumbles aloud is a fault
even if the table says it scans.
### 5. Revise
Present fixes in the edit-note format the `line-editing` skill uses, with
the verse line as the location:
```markdown
**stanza 2, line 3** · meter
> Before: And the boat that did come on the Thursday tide
> After: And the boat that came in on the Thursday tide
Why: "did come" pads the line; "came in" keeps four beats without the filler.
```
Lead with faults that break the form, then weak rhymes, then polish. Apply
only what the author accepts, or everything on explicit instruction.
Rescan every line you change.
### 6. Place story verse
1. Put the verse where it is read: in the chapter body, or in a `matter/`
file for an epigraph, created without a printed page title:
```shell
story add matter "Epigraph" --heading false
```
2. Keep line breaks through every build: end each line of a stanza,
except the last, with a backslash (`\`), and leave a blank line
between stanzas. For verse set off from the prose, put the stanza in
a blockquote and end each quoted line the same way.
3. Record the verse's facts in the usual places: a song that recurs is a
motif (`theme-craft`), a prophecy is a promise (`plot-structure`).
4. Run maintenance:
```shell
story wordcount --write
story links
story validate
```
## Reference Files
- **`references/forms.md`** - Rules, an original example, and common faults
for the limerick, sonnets, haiku, villanelle, ballad, clerihew, couplets,
free verse, song lyrics, and rhyming picture-book text
- **`references/meter-and-scansion.md`** - Feet and meters, how to find a
word's stress, the scansion table format, and which departures are
allowed
- **`references/rhyme.md`** - Kinds of rhyme, scheme notation, forced-rhyme
tells, and rhymes readers have seen too often
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