Zecora explains to Twilight why she talks the way that she does, and she does it completely in anapestic tetrameter and character-consistent end rhyme.

Over the past several months, Twilight Sparkle has been translating an old journal. At the onset, the activity simply served to appease the mare's curiosity and to help her learn the Ancient Equestrian language, but she finds the closing entries of the journal to be far more important than she had anticipated. These are the closing entries of the journal of Stargazer, Luna's royal astronomer some 1,000 years ago.