My limericks
Ivan S. Eubanks
ieubanks at PUSHKINIANA.ORG
Thu May 31 15:10:34 UTC 2012
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 -----
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> Odoslané: štvrtok, 31. máj 2012 4:28:37
> Predmet: Re: [SEELANGS] My limericks
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> " Let's all join the chorus "
> " For our fabled Horace "
>
> how many people rhyme "chorus" and "Horace"?
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