Saturday, April 17, 2010

A bit of rhyme and rhythm

Prose, trust me, is an awful lot easier to compose than a bit of poetry.

But the pleasure that engulfs you when, once your little piece is done, you sit back and skim through your work, jumping lightly at the last syllable of every line, realising vivid rhyme schemes and finding the meter fit in as solidly as the last piece in a magnificent jigsaw is proportionately enormous.

Well, I can say I tried:   http://twentythorpes.blogspot.com/

(Lets see whether you can second guess what the url is a reference to.)

6 comments:

  1. dei... antha blog romba over english ah irrukku da... knojam ennakku understanding ah write pannu.. okay va ?? :)

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  2. good one!! the poem !!

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  3. dude is twenty thorpe a ref to adam thorpe the brit poet???

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  4. Nope. It's from Tennyson's "The Brook", which runs "by twenty thorpes, a little town and half a hundred bridges."

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