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FLN,
“Ed and Will” are Spenser and Shakespeare,
pioneers in the form I hoped you’d hear.
Now please heed words you may find of value
on how to read poems, as best you can do.
(Looking back now on Sunday at leisure,
with reference to the two op’ning measures ….)
“Two Limericks of Advice,
or, One Limerick—Twice”
To tell truth, a reader can stray
off the path of true rhythm’s sway,
whene’er we don’t know
how a poem should go,
so, pray, let us weigh the right way.
I think Owen will back me in this.
Proper meter is nothing amiss.
To grok the form
won’t do any harm:
his lim’rick, my sonnet, bring bliss!
~ OMK
Today’s Jumble haiku:
“EZ-PZ Breezy Bread & Kumis”
Butter, added late
to yeast, blocks gluten. Fancy
a healthy guzzle?
~ OMK
Today's Js were no help on
Wordle 639 3/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
But guess #3 fit nicely
WC
Fln, I reposted a favorite Bilbo verse re. Smaug's threatening Mary's canary but it disappeared
Anybody spot before the powers that be spotted it?
WC
To create some fancy pastry
Takes baking it with care.
Just slapping it too hasty
The ingredients won't bear!
One must measure in the yeast,
Pre-melt the butter into ghee.
For ginger schnapps, at least,
Insure the liquor's quality!
It's better to just take a nip
At each stage of the process
Rather than guzzle a hefty sip
And risk the flavoring's losses.
If there's sufficient care, it's easy.
One finds pastry baking's breezy!
She said, "My Guy is easy to love.
He'll reach a helping hand from above.
He's easily smitten
By an adorable kitten
And helps her find her misplaced mitten!"
I started with my usual flower, used an entire citrus fruit, then decided to run off to Etna with a British chap, then added a spice, but ran out of guesses. I should have gotten into the ring and prepared for the fight sooner.
Wordle 639 X/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
Easy-peasey
A favourite Easter feast
Is a tasty Hot Cross Bun.
So open up the yeast
And make more than one.
They don’t need to be fancy,
Just be sure to bake with love.
They’re as simple as can be,
No need to wear your gloves.
Top with butter and enjoy
But don’t guzzle your tea - that will annoy.
"Crummy Cook"
She thought her cooking was pretty fancy,
but winning the contest turned out to be chancy.
The recipes made her puzzle,
so glasses of wine should guzzle.
She feared she would need too much butter,
and this made her nervously mutter.
But her bread did well with the yeast,
and made the dinner a pretty good feast.
In the end she claimed it had been easy,
and ignored that her efforts had been measly.
Woohoo! Got the Wordle in three tries, but understood your nice clue, Canadian, only after I got it.
Wordle 639 3/6
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⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"Thank you, all"
OMK, your verse deserves much praise,
a glass of wine to you we raise.
Owen, you clearly bake very well
and your telling us is swell.
CE, even without gloves you're a great cook,
and should think of writing a baking book.
Wilbur, we missed your Bilbo--
please give it another go.
And so my thanks to you all,
sharing this blog is just a ball.
Wilbur @2:34 ~
Your “missing” piece is posted on the 18th.
~ OMK
CEh! ~ Thanks for the reminder of Hot Cross Buns. I used to enjoy them as a kid, though have not seen any in recent times.
Researching recipes before posting my haiku showed me that you can “inhibit” the presence of gluten by adding butter late to a yeast concoction. Try it, if you are one of these anti-gluten types!
Misty ~ Hope you saw my answer, that my reference was to the begetters of Spenserian & Shakespearean Sonnets. My opening poem yesterday was a 14-line sonnet, three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter. ABABCDCDEFEFGG (tho I ended FF).
Knowing the form is helpful when reading the rhythm.
Owen’s opener yesterday was a limerick, two three-beat lines, followed by two in two, capped by a finale in three. The rhythm favors anapests but can be iambic. The rhymes run AABBA.
Much of our work here is in freer form, most often loose collections of couplets. Sometimes free of standard rhythms. But I find that when I recognize that a traditional form is in play, I can better appreciate the exactness of its rhythm.
I enjoyed your “CrummyCook”! She is proof that guzzling wine and an over-use of butter will save most recipes!
I Thank you for the toast!
~ OMK
Well, OMK and Owen, you've just gotten me to spend some time looking into iambic pentameter and going over your verses to identify your rhythms and the musical quality of the sounds of the words. As a literary scholar, this should have been a primary obsession throughout my career, but since my focus was on the highly experimental work of writers like James Joyce (my dissertation was on 'Finnegans Wake') I was much more interested in how writing departed from conventional and traditional modes rather than how it demonstrated them. And so you're bringing me back to the basis of much literary convention--which is wonderful to explore in this late phase of our careers. So thank you both for that.
Very glad to help, Misty, truly. My background in theater naturally introduced me, through verse drama, to varied forms. The first, of course, was via Shakespeare, to “blank verse,” which as you know is iambic pentameter that does not rhyme.
It’s said to be most like our normal English mode of conversation—don’tcha know?
In fact, if you break the preceding line in the middle of the word “English,” you’ll find two perfect lines of blank verse.
Check it out:
“It’s said to be most like our normal Eng/
lush mode of conversation—don’tcha know?”
In dramas, rhyme usually comes into play only at the ends of scenes. The original audiences didn’t have a curtain or fade-out to let them know to applaud a scene’s ending, so the playwrights gave them a rhyming (“Heroic”) couplet, viz.
From Hamlet:
“The time is out of joint, O cursed spite!
That ever I was born to set it right.”
From blank verse to sonnets is an easy step, since both (in their English forms) are in iambic pentameter. But sonnets add rhyme.
Another older format in English is the limerick, a very popular, jingly type. These are two that often appear here in the blog.
The reason I took pains to identify them is that I have found it is easy to miss out on the pleasure of the rhythm if we don’t recognize the format.
Sometimes the poet is lucky enough to choose words that can only be read the right way.
But English inflection allows us a degree of variety, and it is possible to misread some sentences. In Owen’s first limerick, the opening lines don’t automatically fall into the anapestic rhythm (“dah-dah-DUM”) that kicks a limerick into gear.
I started to read it the wrong way, and didn’t appreciate it until I went back and tried again. I can break it down, but that becomes terribly detailed, so I’ll just say you can make it work when you know how it can sound.
~ OMK
I am late returning. We were all baking today, but different items. I’m not sure I want to guzzle OMK’s Bread and Kumis.
Glad to remind you of Hot Cross Buns. (And I am ok with gluten).
Owen gives us a lovely recipe, and a great tip for the baker. I think that is like the red wine in the Beef Bourguignon - some for the pot and some for the cook.
It even works for Misty’s Crummy Cook.
Owen also gives us the W in its various forms. (I see it spaced out in the first line too,)
I don’t know much about the varied forms. What an education we get here. I have to lean on my music background to feel the rhythm when I write my verses. Sometimes I feel more successful than others. But I do enjoy learning from the masters.
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