When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.