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they specifically select sentences that form a poem that is valid in the English language

How many possible rhyming couplets are there? I'll give you a hint, it's a huge number.

and is easy to memorize.

They do this by choosing from a million candidates. That reduces the key space by log2(1000000) ~ 19.9 bits. Compensate in full by increasing the key size by two more words.

social engineering

Irrelevant. The passphrases are selected by computer.

to about 10,000

Do the actual calculations.

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