sonnet = 'any short poem'

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 9 03:52:50 UTC 2011


You're right. That would just be odious, not odeous.

     VS-)

On 2/8/2011 8:24 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> Personally, I think that the use of _ode_ should be maintained in such
> contexts, as in the case of
>
> "Ode To A Muskox"
>
> cuteoverload.com/2010/04/05/ode-to-a-muskox/
>
> "_Sonnet_ To A Muskox"? Somehow, it appears to lack something.
>
> --
> -Wilson

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