Re: Metrical meanderings

----- 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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