Re: Metrical meanderings

the verb is "kan" meaning "To know"  -
 -elliott

--- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
>
>
> > On 7/6/06, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
> wrote:
> >> So the rhyme wanders into other lines, but not
> terminally:
> >
> > OK.  Guess it qualifies then.  I like the term
> "residual rhyming".
> >
> >> Eventually Harry Bailie makes him shut up. :)
> Chaucer's sputtering
> >> rejoinder is that it's "the best rhyme that I
> can."
> >
> > Of course it is.  That sentence no verb, though...
>
> Sure it does.  You need to be intimate with O- and
> ME, though.  Guess which
> active verb it is? :)
>
>
> "Why so?' quod I, "why wiltow lette me
> More of my tale than another man,
> Syn that is the beste rym I kan?"
>
> :D
> Sally
>

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