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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 What's significant about this poem-ette? #128888 05/31/04 09:49 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic OP Carpal Tunnel OP AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Find the subtext (I won't post the answer for a few days... anyone who read M. vos Savant's [is her name for real?] column this past weekend is automatically disqualified): Sir, I send a rhyme excelling In sacred truth and rigid spelling Numerical sprites elucidate For me the lexicon's dull* weight. ~~~ *also "full" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128889 06/01/04 12:48 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Okay; "subtext" means The implicit meaning or theme of a literary text. In other words, what's she talking about, right? Sounds like a dictionary to me. No, no, wait--it has to be a rhyme. "Numerical sprites"--sounds like footnote indicators... ?? Oh! The Bible? Agh, that's not a rhyme either. Though parts of it are songs or poems...The Song of Solomon, perhaps? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128890 06/01/04 12:57 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I'd go with dictionary. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128891 06/01/04 11:02 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic OP Carpal Tunnel OP AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York I guess "subtext" is the wrong word. Sorry to mislead, though you were quite creative there, Jackie.This is much better: What's the poem's structure based on? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128892 06/01/04 11:43 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA I keep going around in circles. I'm stumpt. k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128893 06/01/04 12:37 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 going around in circles. That's perty funny, Fall. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128894 06/01/04 12:47 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont making me hungry... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128895 06/01/04 01:02 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 hungry Have you some cornbread, cygne. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128896 06/02/04 06:02 PM Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 67 G gonoldothrond journeyman gonoldothrond journeyman G Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 67 it's all greek to me... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's significant about this poem-ette? #128897 06/02/04 06:38 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont you clud make a guess... edit:dang typing... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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