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Re: Gimmericks and other irregularities
The perfect limerick is all anapestic. da da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DUM da da DUM So that means I was right the first time, in all but keeping Denny's rhyme of ''Maria'' and ''urea'' with ''dysuria''. Well, it was bound to happen: your description of the limerick ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 5, 2009
Nice!
''Not seeing the forest for the trees''...good one! Small suggestion with regard to meter: I think that I shall never seeThat tree as it was meant to beUnless I comprehend at allThe forest where that tree may fall Here possibly informal grammar (in the last line) is less a fault than not sticking to the exact poetic foot. Nash stuck to it ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2008
Re: evaluating poems
MaryAnn:islandtime, I, too, abhor the phrase Tuesday tripe. What particularly bothers me are posts that fail to make a distinction between not liking something (perhaps because of a different belief system from that expressed in the poem or because of a preference for a different style of writing) and calling something tripe. There's nothing ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 15, 2007