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I am Bic Pentameter Bic Pentameter is my name Rhythm is my business Time management is my game Short, Long & Sons employ me To tidy up their verse The satirists are not too bad But Catullus is a curse I have danced with Sappho Brought Shakespeare home for tea Swapped pretty tales with Byron Bounced da Padova on my knee Marlowe picked a fight for nought Auden spiked my drink Wordsworth was insomnolent He never slept a wink Yeats, now there's an anecdote Worthy of the press The critic's choice by all accounts The brightest and the best But listen to me prattling on To my work I must attend Performance, prosody, poesy The rules of scansion do not bend For metre is all important When reciting off by heart The classic works of yesteryear And I shall play my part
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Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 7:06 PM UTC
I am Bic Pentameter
I am Bic Pentameter Bic Pentameter is my name Rhythm is my business Time management is my game Short, Long & Sons employ me To tidy up their verse The satirists are not too bad But Catullus is a curse I have danced with Sappho Brought Shakespeare home for tea Swapped pretty tales with Byron Bounced da Padova on my knee Marlowe picked a fight for nought Auden spiked my drink Wordsworth was insomnolent He never slept a wink Yeats, now there's an anecdote Worthy of the press The critic's choice by all accounts The brightest and the best But listen to me prattling on To my work I must attend Performance, prosody, poesy The rules of scansion do not bend For metre is all important When reciting off by heart The classic works of yesteryear And I shall play my part
Iambic pentameter - a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
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F/Christchurch, New Zealand
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 7:06 PM UTC
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