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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 6 of 51 1 2 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 50 51 Go to page... Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Avy] #209158 01/19/13 02:58 AM 01/19/13 02:58 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,968 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc OP Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   OP Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,968 Worcester, MA First the Lost Dutchman's Goldmine attacked us, * Then excessively watered the cactus. ** ...Now I find with dismay ...That an Apple a day Keeps the Doctor away from his practice ! *** * One of the early text-only adventure games. Like Zork. ** If you did anything but the right thing all you saw was a saguaro cactus *** Remember when there were no Macintosh computers, just an Apple II ? (I won $10 once for submitting that to an early computer magazine, in 1983 or so. That's the same as Second Prize in a Beauty Contest !) Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: maverick] #209175 01/20/13 03:28 AM 01/20/13 03:28 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny   veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi The medieval peoples for Heaven did search In transept cathedrals the heathens did worsh Building their churches crossed shaped As vehicles where souls could translate Now every airplane flying is a cross shaped church GNOSIS - GOAT Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: tsuwm] #209176 01/20/13 03:39 AM 01/20/13 03:39 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick   Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 > comic verse consisting of five anapestic lines Hm, yes, it can be – but the form is not exactly set in concrete. Personally, the structure I think most satisfying is: Rhyme scheme: AABBA Lines 1,2,5: 9 syllables in 3 amphibrachic feet Lines 3,4: 6 syllables in 2 anapestic feet The unity of triploid feet helps weld the thing together, but the variation in stress patterns makes for more interest. This gives the characteristic declamatory inversion of normal speech rhythm in the first line ~ “There WAS an/old MAN of/deVIZes….” The alteration to anapaest in the middle couplet has something of the same kind of effect that a couplet does in a 14 line sonnet, but sprung into the humorous conclusion of the final line with both rhythmic stress and final rhyme striking conclusively as a closing bell (apart from variation for more humorous effect!) ymmv and now we return you to your regular program... Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: jenny jenny] #209177 01/20/13 04:02 AM 01/20/13 04:02 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick   Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 There once was a preacher from Dickey Whose long-growing gnosis was tricky: He had discarded god As a vindictive sod But a goat’s love soon gained him a quickie! now an easy lob: GIRDLE - - - GIRL Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: wofahulicodoc] #209178 01/20/13 04:16 AM 01/20/13 04:16 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky There once was a girl name of Myrtle Who ran track and was facing a hurdle; She ran and she jumped but down she did thump, being stopped at mid-leap by her girdle. Somebody else please post new words for me--I can't get to my brick-and-mortar dictionary right now. Thanks. Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Jackie] #209179 01/20/13 05:16 AM 01/20/13 05:16 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass how about these, from W3: GHOSTLIKE GIBBET Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: tsuwm] #209180 01/20/13 08:23 AM 01/20/13 08:23 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska With his feet through the floor of the gibbet, A bit late to be urbane and glib, it Was then his thirst spike Caused the thought, so ghostlike: "I could sure use a shot of Glenlibet." CONFIDENTIAL – CONGO Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Tromboniator] #209181 01/20/13 12:35 PM 01/20/13 12:35 PM Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,071 London, UK A A C Bowden old hand A C Bowden   old hand A Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,071 London, UK In a document marked 'Confidential', The President wrote "It's essential That the Congo's unrest Should be quickly suppressed, Or its spread could become exponential". ENORMOUS – ENTANGLE Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: A C Bowden] #209188 01/21/13 01:18 PM 01/21/13 01:18 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick   Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Bravo! Some real goodies and isn't it interesting how the very constraints of form (and content) can light a spark of creativity? Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: maverick] #209189 01/21/13 05:06 PM 01/21/13 05:06 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,158 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,158 Land of the Flat Water truly! ----please, draw me a sheep---- Page 6 of 51 1 2 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 50 51 Go to page... 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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