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Today’s Jumble haiku:
(Fined on the game show for guessing wrongly when answering riddles, the contestant was apt to leap at an answer before he was ready. Each time he registered a wrong answer he’d be marked as …)
”Drawn, one Fine”
A mature riddle:
ask why a tooth is like a
pet-protecting fence….?
~ OMK
If you see a post that strikes you funny
Should you reply ROFL or an emoji sunny?
Either way,
What you say
Is that "I enjoyed your writing, honey!"
FLN, FLN Misty:
By burying the B-rhyme in mid line, as in your example, you disrupt your own rhythm.
Why do we bother to break poems into lines at all?
When you start off in couplets, rhyming in two- and three-beat lines, your readers’ ears listen for the echo at the end of the 2nd or 3rd beat following. They EXPECT the rhyme then.
Now, you can be generous if you like, and give them a rhyme on the very next beat (the 1st beat following, as you do with “prone”), BUT then you still owe them a rhyme at the end of your line.
PAUSE here, please, and look at my Sunday Staycation piece for the opposite example. In that one, I start off with an ABAB scheme in four beat lines. Please note how your ear expects my A-rhyme to come at the end of my 3rd line, as it does with “conducive” after “elusive.”
My rhyming word comes at the end of that line even though the sense of the sentence is not yet complete.
Why?
Because some would say that the rhythm—the beats, or meter—is more important than even the grammar.
Of course, we don’t NEED to use either rhyme or rhythm. But yes, I believe that once we CHOOSE to have such familiar devices, they DO become that important.
The only reason we break a poem into certain line lengths (rather than follow sense and use paragraphs, as in prose) is to lay stress on rhythm and, if we are using rhyme, to position our key rhymes at the END of each metric line.
Right?
Thank you for asking. I hope this is useful.
~ OMK
"Poetess"
Florence loved to rhyme
whenever she found the time.
Her poems were always tense
with the theme a bit on the fence.
And she also liked to fiddle
with giving her verses a riddle.
Her work was considered so mature
she was invited to take a tour.
Her poems had such a lovely sound
that Florence, the poet, is now renowned.
Ol' Man Keith, thank you for your thoughtful and considerate explanation of how a poem should be properly written, and I very much appreciate your response. I wish I could follow your rules, but if I am going to continue to offer a poem on the blog every day, I need to have the right and the pleasure to produce it in the way that feels most comfortable and pleasant to me, even if it doesn't precisely follow the rules of poetic format. I love this blog and love writing and posting a verse every day, and hope my deviations and errors can just be tolerated, and I would give you, and every one, my warm thanks for that.
Find the Time
I have found as I mature,
That the solace of nature
Soothes the question of life’s riddle,
And the problems in the middle.
No sitting on the fence,
Earth Mother is immense.
No need to rant and rail,
Or fight with tooth and nail,
Enjoy the flora and fauna;
It will help to heal the trauma.
I was at the Greek market before I got out into nature. Hard one today.
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Ach! I’ve been censored again today.
This was above my Wordle result:
I was at the Greek market before I got out into nature. Hard one today.
OMK- is there an answer to that riddle?
Owen- are you hiding the W in that texting abbreviation?
Your post brought a smile.
Misty- your lively couplets today tell a good story of Florence, and her rise from amateur poet to a renowned writer. I was waiting for her to take a bite, but you omitted that J word.
Yes, I will also need to be forgiven for my amateur poetry here.
Dear Misty ~
Of course you can post poetry in any format you like. Like others, I enjoy what you compose for us.
I remind you that you asked me to explain why I found one rhyme in your piece for Saturday inconsistent with your own scheme.
There is no “should” in my essay, other than the rules you set for yourself—and which we as your readers aim to follow.
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CEh! ~
There is indeed an answer.
But I pose it in the same spirit as Lewis Carroll’s famous question, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
~ OMK
I uncensored you, CanadianEh!
But apparently the Bot is not learning its lesson. I know it’s not much helped to be fixed after the fact.
~ OMK
I don't think this is completely correct, but maybe partially so.
A fence may be a canine defense
A tooth may be a canine, dense.
Thank you for the kind response, OMK, always appreciated. It's always exciting to see how you worked all J words and solution into your haiku and title, and there they were again today--a pleasure.
I enjoyed your poem, Owen. Many thanks for that too.
My goodness, CanadianEh!, you give us a wonderful lesson on the spirit with which we should live our life. We should all inscribe it as a mantra into our diaries. That way we could all have it in mind as we encounter life's problems. A lovely gift, thank you.
IIRC, my answer to Carroll's riddle was
A writing desk, or secretary
Is used to hold stationary.
A raven, propped
On a treetop
Will hold his station, airy.
Woohoo! I got the Wordle in just three tries today--what a great way to start the week!
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Have a great week, everybody!
Florence the poet attains great success, under Misty’s sheltering couplets—thus appearing to provide ample proof that regularity pays off!
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The wisdom of CEh is in her post
that all-abundant nature deserves our toast.
There’s no need to pose the question,
in light of the profusion of her profession.
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Wordle 3 April ‘23
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Used Bot start;
let 1,000 bloom…
~ OMK
Owen ~ Each of your answers is a worthy attempt,
tho’ failure, from the onset, was always exempt—
‘cuz neither Carroll nor I started out with an answer,
so any response has a fairly fine chance, Sir!
While it’s true that Carroll did not provide an answer to this riddle—asked of Alice by the Mad Hatter—his many readers demanded one.
He was pressured to provide it in a subsequent publication. Here is Carroll’s reply to his own Hatter:
“Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and is nevar put with the wrong end in front.”*
~ OMK
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* Note the intended misspelling of “Never.”
Thanks Owen and OMK for your great poetic responses to my riddle query.
And thanks Owen, for reminding me of the double meanings for canine.
OMK- I used that same Bot start this morning, but you must have used a hint to get the W so quick. But then Misty got it in three guesses. Maybe my brain was slow today.
I had been thinking that the Bot here liked me now because I haven’t been censored for a while.
Thanks all for your kind words on my offering. Perhaps some “Forest- bathing” is in order for us all.
Gotta hand it to that Carroll chap.
Bright fellow. Oxford Don and all.
I guess he took a hint from E.A. Poe's black bird, the one perched upon the bust of Pallas.
"Nevermore..."
~ OMK
A tooth may be a dental canine,
A pet dog may be a gentle canine.
I'm fascinated by a theory about Poe. He attended University of Virginia for one year, while Thomas Jefferson was president of the school. Jefferson occasionally invited students to his home. And he had a talking pet bird of the genus corvus. Not a raven, a jackdaw IIRC. Close kin.
Thanks, Owen!
Now you’ve got me imagining a link from TJ through Poe to the creator of Alice in Wonderland.
~ OMK
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