My limericks

[Ivan S. Eubanks]

RE:  Cleminson:  This is a great example that upholds the spirit of the 
limerick as a genre.

I should add that Professor Townsend has encyclopedic knowledge of 
multiple phonological variants, and the historical circumstances giving 
rise to them, in a variety of languages.  I'm confident enough in his 
knowledge that I'd scan is limericks just to find out whether a given 
pronunciation was viable.

Concerning the short "o"--"HAriss" sounds like something Archie Bunker 
would say were he to succumb to an apoplectic fit over "Ars poetica" or 
"Exegi monumentum" (although I can also imagine his wife, Edith, 
screaming it at the top of her lungs when he finally frustrates her enough).

Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D.
Editor
Pushkin Review
www.pushkiniana.org


On 5/31/12 5:04 PM, R. M. Cleminson wrote:
> This discussion seems to be predicated on the assumption that Professor Townsend intends his limericks to have perfect rhymes.  He is maintaining a discreet silence, but this may not be the case.  The not-quite rhyme is often used for comic effect, and there are precedents in the work of the Master himself, Edward Lear, for example (I quote from memory):
>
>   There once was a man who said "Hush!
>   I perceive a young bird in this bush."
>   When they asked "Is is small?"
>   He replied "Not at all:
>   It is four times as big as the bush."
>
> ----- Pôvodná správa -----
> Od: "Robert Orr"<colkitto at ROGERS.COM>
> Komu: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Odoslané: štvrtok, 31. máj 2012 4:28:37
> Predmet: Re: [SEELANGS] My limericks
>
> 
> " Let's all join the chorus "
> " For our fabled Horace "
>
> how many people rhyme "chorus" and "Horace"?
>
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