-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.25 Sep 2003

[_] AABB rhyming scheme
[_] About drugs
[_] About romantic love
[_] About writing
[_] About suicide or self-mutilation
[_] About the author's social pastimes
[X] Arbitrary indentation
[X] Arbitrary line breaks
[_] Autobiographical but written in the third person
[X] Clerical errors
[_] Clichéd imagery (gazing out of window, tears falling like rain)
[_] Clichéd rhymes (love/above, heart/apart)
[_] Clichéd angst words (putrid, wretched)
[X] Devoid of rhyme
[X] Devoid of other linguistic embellishments (alliteration, onomatopoeia)
[X] Devoid of other literary devices (simile, synaesthesia)
[X] Devoid of wondrous or fantastical imagery
[X] Ellipses used overabundantly
[_] Insipidly whimsical or zany
[_] Internet shorthand or emoticons
[_] Leaving rant
[_] Lower case only
[_] 'Lyrics'
[_] Melodramatic
[X] Naively religious or superstitious
[_] Obsessed with femininity
[X] Pointedly unanswered questions
[_] Rage against the machine
[X] Repetition of a word or phrase to the point of nausea
[_] Sanctimonious
[X] Self-obsessed
[_] Sentimental
[_] Smugly-named protagonist
[_] Thesaurophilia
[_] Untitled
[_] Vicarious wish fulfilment

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