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- From: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
- Subject: Re: Clerihewing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.181716.10080@ecrc.de>
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- Reply-To: sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad)
- Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munich
- References: <1992Nov14.182029.25691@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:17:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.182029.25691@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> lnh@physics.arizona.edu writes:
- >sanjiva@ecrc.de (Sanjiva Prasad) writes a clerihew:
- >> Vikram Seth
- >> Wrote "The Golden Gate"
- >> A novel in sonnet verse
- >> On West Coast Boomers.
- >>
- >> (aabb, first line a name. Yes, Virginia, that's how Seth should be
- >> pronounced.)
- >
- >The second couplet isn't, and they aren't sonnets.
- >
- > the everyone's critic Mr. E-----
-
-
- Right in your review
- Of my limp Clerihew are you.
- Prosaic Licence, I plead, still,
- And beg you to comp, not cavil.
-
- Okay, TGG isn't in iambic pentameter but the rhyme patterns are close to those
- in real sonnets. And yes, the second couplet isn't (but it is in most
- Indian English); for that matter neither is the first for the "th" is Seth
- is different from the "t" in Gate (but not really discernable to the English/
- American ear).
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