Monday, May 22, 2006

Calling Old Farts To High Tea ~ (Rhyming Couplets) Comments

Rating: 2.9

One hundred eleven and not in heaven
Go where kilns can bake or leaven?

Me, thinks I hear a little bell
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Debora Short
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Joseph Daly 30 June 2006

This is great. I like the pace of it and it flows well. A lot of people are sniffy about rhyme. Not me, I like it when it is skillfully applied as it is here. There is something rather English (almost Betjamin) about this and yet the theme is a million miles away from England. I find that a great deal of thought needs to go into a poem that is divided into couplets. this works really well.

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