Saturday, April 05, 2008

Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

Juliet did suitors scan
For Romeo she pined
The play was one small step for man
One giant appeal for mankind

11 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:19 PM

    Poet, oh Poet,
    Wherefore art thou, Poet?
    Deny thy syntax and forget they meter,
    Because thanks to free verse none of that other stuff matters anyway.

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  2. Anonymous8:45 PM

    My partner's been judged to have done some fine work there. "$300 or thirty days."

    The thing I remember most about that play is the commentary by the eminent Shakespearean scholar and Kittredge student, Richard Armour. Who wrote that R & J entered the play callow and impetuous, and left it noble, dignified, and dead. Armour was famous for pointing out how often one could slip up on that kind of appeal.

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  3. Where would we be without "The Bards"? ;-)

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  4. That nurse had a lot to answer for!

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  5. But then she thinks she'll play a trick,
    Determined him to marry,
    It all goes wrong, and before too long
    It ends in hari-kari.

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  6. Anonymous2:56 AM

    I suspect the old Bard is smiling!

    Have an excellent weekend :)

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  7. How? she marvels. How does he come up with this stuff?

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  8. and definitely not a waste of time

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