| || scour, tempo, effect, bonnet, footnotes.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
ReplyDelete"And it was Footnoted!"
Musicologists scoured the score, row
by row for markings of tempo.
Was the first movement Allegro or Allegretto?
They wanted to know the effect, to know
how he wanted his music to flow.
Scholars felt lucky to have found at last
his manuscript score from decades past,
tucked in a bonnet in a funicular, crashed
on its way to the Festung Hohensalzburg.
~ OMK
I give my readers a choice.
ReplyDeleteEither change the last word in the 1st stanza to "surge"--
-Or-
Leave everything in place & stick with my Spike Jones finale.
Love ~ OMK
Wow! Ol' MAN Keith, you've outdone yourself this morning. Lovely musical theme and great rhyming (well, except for HOHENSALZBURG, which doesn't quite rhyme with 'crashed.') But a superb Wednesday opening to the blog.
ReplyDelete"Romantic Beau"
ReplyDeleteFor her birthday he bought her a bonnet
and also wrote her a sonnet.
He went to the market to scour
the place for the perfect flower.
Some music his love would show,
played with a gentle tempo.
This produced a romantic effect
which only raised her respect
for this gentleman, who in her view,
would earn her most loving "I do."
Ah, yes, Misty, he's romantic indeed.
ReplyDeleteA bonnet, a sonnet, the flower (scoured!), and the music. No way could she resist, especially if he was able to choose a bonnet that suited her style.
That was probably the trickiest choice of all--to know what she would actually be willing to wear and not just hide away in a dark closet! If he could do that, you KNOW he'd been paying attention to her personality and taste.
Thank you for your compliment re. my ditty. I think we overlapped, did you see my alternate rhyme choice of "surge"?
But I actually prefer the non-rhyme version. Isn't it fun sometimes to go galloping along, rhyming and rhyming and then come to a thudding finish?
(Or were you pulling my leg?)
~ OMK
Great poetry today from both. I like "surge" because it creates an AAABCCCB sequence.
ReplyDeleteNow the details you reference are from some literary source of which I am unfamiliar.
Sorry Ivanhoe is delayed. I need the right frame of mind plus I've been off solving the week's xwords and J's.
Friday was tough and Thursday also. But for a Saturday, Roland Huger gave us something doable.
WC
Good to see you, Wilbur, even without a new Ivanhoe verse.
ReplyDeleteOur page is inhabited by so few of us, we look forward to each posting.
And thanks for voting for "surge." Yes, that was the scheme I initially had in mind. I may prefer the unrhymed ending, but I'm glad to see either version appreciated.
I didn't have any special source in mind for it. I just went with the clue words, letting them guide me. I listen to classical music via YouTube when I do my exercises every day, and I read the old "liner notes" on my tablet.
They're always talking about interpreting old score MSS.
Then, when I was scratching for an exotic place (that might conceal a bonnet), I remembered sweet times I spent in Salzburg.
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, I really liked your first poem just the way it was, with no surge.
ReplyDeleteNice to have you check in Wilbur, and look forward to more Ivanhoe to come.