Re: Off topic: New Year's frivolity

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

ON 3 Jan 2005, Carlo wrote:
 Pope's "Essay on Criticism"

A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.≫

Ah, yes. That "needless Alexandrine" is a good example of what I'm
looking for: he describes the Alexandrine in a line that is indeed an
Alexandrine.

≪children's books whose authors seem to think that all you need is a
rhyme (and a bad one at that). Meter--what's that?≫

It must have been 20 years back that a colleague in a professional
association (nameless out of possibly misplaced charity) produced what
she claimed were humorous "Popean couplets" and got them published in its
newsletter. Well, they had the end-stopped rhymes, but no meter
whatsoever.
Patricia M. Godfrey
PMGodfrey@xxxxxxxx