"That gets recited on one of the feast days."

"Which one?"

"First summer feast."

"Aha. That makes sense. It's beautiful."

"I'm glad you like it."

"I've found that every culture has beautiful poetry."

"Every single one? That's really something. I don't know if wild elementals have poetry but I guess they might not count as a culture."

"I haven't found any that didn't. Aside from cultures sufficiently old and lacking in archaeological evidence of their language that we don't know what if any poetry they had, I suppose."

"Well, would wild elementals count as a culture, now I want to know - they coalesce already adult and don't necessarily interact with anyone, but sometimes there are a few together -"

"It's a good question! Even if they do, I wouldn't be shocked if they failed to follow the cultural patterns I'm familiar with, they have such dramatically different circumstances."

"Are vampires a culture?"

"I wouldn't call us one. We come from dramatically different backgrounds and don't tend to cluster in otherwise extraordinarily multiethnic groups. I've known groups of vampires within human cultures large enough and sufficiently divorced from the surrounding humans that they might be called a subculture, but the set of all vampires across the globe, no."

"So you'd be exempt from needing to have beautiful poetry but you're a poet anyway, bonus."

Giggle. "Yes. But I write Polish poetry or English poetry or whatever other kind of poetry, not vampire poetry."

"Oh, it's by language?"

"Not entirely. But it's seems more comprehensible, in context, to name cultures than to say 'sonnet' and 'pentasyllable.'"

"Don't know what those are."

"A form of verse popular in English literature and a meter all but ubiquitous in Polish verse."

"I'm not sure we have words for that sort of thing, or if we do I don't know them. Maybe a society has to be older first."

"Fair enough. Relevant features of poetry, then."