Cleverly done, Susan!
Your poem reminds me of Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” where he illustrates poetic misdemeanors for about 20 lines, then illustrates the corresponding excellences, ending:
”True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
‘Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
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