https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/06/21/the-dangerous-dictionary/ Author of Healing Maddie Brees & Wait, thoughts and practices in waiting on God Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/06/21/the-dangerous-dictionary/#comment-208 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:08:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/06/21/the-dangerous-dictionary#comment-208 Look what you can find when you google a word:Alfred, Lord TennysonHendecasyllabicsPoem lyrics of Hendecasyllabics by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.O you chorus of indolent reviewers,Irresponsible, indolent reviewers,Look, I come to the test, a tiny poemAll composed in a metre of Catullus,All in quantity, careful of my motion,Like the skater on ice that hardly bears him,Lest I fall unawares before the people,Waking laughter in indolent reviewers.Should I flounder awhile without a tumbleThro’ this metrification of Catullus,They should speak to me not without a welcome,All that chorus of indolent reviewers.Hard, hard, hard it is, only not to tumble,So fantastical is the dainty meter.Wherefore slight me not wholly, nor believe meToo presumptuous, indolent reviewers.O blatant Magazines, regard me rather –Since I blush to belaud myself a moment –As some rare little rose, a piece of inmostHorticultural art, or half-coquette-likeMaiden, not to be greeted unbenignly.

]]> https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/06/21/the-dangerous-dictionary/#comment-207 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:49:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/06/21/the-dangerous-dictionary#comment-207 Ok, on second thought… maybe it’s not funner. Catching toads is loads of fun, afterall (as long as they aren’t UnderToads).

]]> https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/06/21/the-dangerous-dictionary/#comment-206 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:26:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/06/21/the-dangerous-dictionary#comment-206 A thrill it is to catch a tiny toadlingOr hop upon the lawn just like a rabbitBut funner still to write a verse totallingA special meter: <>hendecasyllabic<>!

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