Re: Metrical meanderings

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...


> > Hm.  That's definitionally not a "rhyme", to my way of thinking.
>
> Oh, but it is, but to other's way of thinking.
Evidently!  Hence my inclusion of the disclaimer. :)

> Well, this strikes me as just as unusual-sounding as Irish rhyme.
Uhm, thanks?   Is it also "uncouth"? :)

> Congratulations on the award. :D
Thank you, thank you.  Best poem in some category from three counties
'round!  Of course, Georgia having 159 counties, they're rather small,
but never mind...

Naturally, in the ensuing 20 years, my career as a professional
computer geek has often called for the exercise of my poetic
talents... ;-)

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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