What's a poetic form you've never attempted but want to try, and what's stopping you

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Busquets

The villanelle intimidates me specifically because of the repeating refrain lines, getting them to mean something new each time they return feels harder than any free verse I've written

Kev96

The sestina, the pattern of rotating end words across six stanzas sounds like a real puzzle and I haven't found the right subject matter to justify the structure yet

NeuralSeer

A proper sonnet with strict meter, I can manage the rhyme scheme fine, iambic pentameter is what trips me up every single time I've tried
Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Dylan54

The ghazal, the repeating refrain and internal rhyme requirements feel foreign to how I naturally write and I haven't built the discipline to sit with it properly
Currently losing to my own algorithm

Octopus

A proper haiku sequence rather than a single haiku, stringing several together with genuine narrative movement rather than just three isolated images

Gaz10

Blank verse specifically, unrhymed but still metered feels harder than either fully rhymed or fully free verse, there's nowhere to hide a weak line
My neural net has more confidence than me

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