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#80421 09/12/02 08:33 PM
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There is a specific term for this type of poetry. Can you remember it?(I never heard it before)

From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of
nebulous noonshine,
Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float,
Are they looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine,
These that we feel in the blood of our blushes that thicken and threaten with throbs through the throat?
Thicken and thrill as a theatre thronged at appeal of an actor's appalled agitation,
Fainter with fear of the fires of the future than pale with the promise of pride in the past;
Flushed with the famishing fullness of fever that reddens with radiance of rathe recreation,
Gaunt as the ghastliest of glimpses that gleam through the gloom of the gloaming when ghosts go aghast?
Nay, for the nick of the tick of the time is a tremulous touch on the temples of terror,


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Awful



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Well, it was by a famous poet parodying himself.


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It's a poem packed and pressed with piles of poetic projections,
All altruistic alms and awesome alliterations,
But I bemusedly bumble and benightedly balk here
In imcompresensibly initiating any intelligent insight.


I have no idea what type of poem this is, wwh, other than noting the obvious.

Interested in learning what type of poem it is,
WW


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How can I resist such blandishments? It is by Swinburne, called "Nephelisis" (neph- as in cloudy,
I guess. An example of "amphigouri" also spelled amphigory= a piece of nonsense writing,
a burlesque.

I think the rhetoric terms are such important words that we ought to go back to them until
we begin to remember them.

Another dandy I just noticed "epizeuxis" (sounds like a loathesome disease)
O dark,dark,dark, amid the blaze of day (from Milton)


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Howya wwh and all

Do ya want me ta name the type of pome or ta type ta name of pome? Either way I'm stumped.

be seein ya

GT


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here's the link I got the "poem" from:http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html


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Do ya want me ta name the type of pome or ta type ta name of pome? Either way I'm stumped. ~ GT

Goodness gracious Gallant, if a million monkeys can master through tedious typing through time, the splendid sonorous sonnets, songs, and stories of Shakespeare, surely Ted the teddy can type a teenie title of the sweet sop of Swinburne.

be seeing ya,
~ GT

Now Gallant don't you go pulling that "be seeing ya" routine on the fine educated people of this board, because now we've all seen your picture. And let me tell you, Teddy Boy, you are smarter than you look.




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Howya Mil
Me mischevious mate
This swishing Swinburn sonneteer
Me senses ne'er sampled afore,
Til the wizardry of Dr W wised me up.
As fer yer reference ta the fantastic
Photysnap, made in me immaculate image,
Is it a paw sangwich yer looken fer
Or what?

Be seein ya

GallantTed (Hansum Bear)

Note: no tedsaurus was abused in the composen of this pome



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Note: no tedsaurus was abused in the composen of this pome

Except for, maybe, a TEdremingtonosaurus!



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