M4, or Alphabetic Iambic Pentameter Consequences, in Six Quatrains and One Couplet

Aug 21, 2010 00:03

Along the road the Dairy Crest man drove.
Beneath his hands the steering wheel was round1.
Cars right and left, before, behind; above1b
descends the evening sky. His weighty load1c
emptied across the carriageway. Police!
Fire! Rescue vehicles: flashing lights descend.
Giraffes and lions roaming through the trees.2How did they get there? Was the ( Read more... )

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I refer the poets to another acrostic.... manjushra August 21 2010, 18:09:59 UTC

Note 1b. manjushra August 21 2010, 18:13:32 UTC
It's a visual rhyme.
What's good enough for Cecil Frances Alexander is jolly fine for me.

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enlivend August 22 2010, 09:05:19 UTC
Splendid. I'm still hunting for point 7. Maybe one of the animals is sitting on it?

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manjushra August 22 2010, 09:34:18 UTC
Possibly the iguana, which threatened to appear in Line I but was refused access on the basis of "too many animals".

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nickbarnes August 22 2010, 13:24:25 UTC
note 7 originally remarked that "querulous" is a cool word. I suppose we could have kept it even after "querulous" was removed....

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