Writing Zecora is hard, guys.

I cannot, for the life of me, write verse.
Zecora is an interesting character. She's wise, level-headed, and surprisingly kind-hearted, for a hermit. As a character, she's useful as a mentor-type, and is also the most likely canidate for finding something particularly strange in the Everfree forest. However, for all of her good points as a character, she has one trait that makes it really, really difficult to write her.
She speaks in verse.
I've seen a lot of bad Zecoras on this site. They're not necessarily bad because they snap into something like "Zecora doesn't rhyme to underscore how dire the situation is", although there is a lot of that, but there's a lot that are bad because people don't realize Zecora doesn't just talk in rhyming couplets. Her speech has a certain cadence to it; I think the fancy writer word is pentameter.

"For your cutie mark, you will have to wait.
We must fix that tooth before it's too late.
Now drink down every little drop,
and this mixture will mend that chip on top!" -Cutie Pox

"A dragon's heart is prone to greed,
a steady diet to make growth speed.
Then, the resulting bigger size
only makes their hunger rise.
If this trait should go unchecked,
if Spike continues to collect,
more growth will certainly occur – he is going to turn into a monster." -Secret of My Excess

As I've stated, I can't poem. I often try to avoid writing Zecora, at least in major roles, because literally EVERY time she opens her mouth, I need to write a poem. And it's terrible.

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