"polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons" -Nicolas Cheetham's book Universe: A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos
though this looks like (and I guess really is) abstract physics jargon, it has such a little rhythm to it: it is in perfect iambic hexameter; the first four iambs are more annunciated and march-like, pushing the speaker/reader forward, and the last two iambs are fluidly strung-together and seemingly more final
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