Comments on: rhyming contest, retroactive

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:17:37 +0000

Wait, are Dale and NLC two different people?

If so, NLC, I want to see your Goodnight Mo too! It sounds like you had one…

By: Aunt Soozie

Aunt Soozie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:52 +0000

Dale,
Speaking as someone who read Goodnight Moon over and over and over…
(command performance)
I really enjoyed your parody!!

By: Nickel Joey

Nickel Joey — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:06:07 +0000

@Debs: Simply amazing. Genius.

@Dale: Awesome. I actually got gooseflesh.

@Ian: “Pentameter” means that every line has five feet.
“Iambic” describes the particular stress pattern of the feet; in this case, it’s two syllables, the second one stressed (like the word “tonight”).

Hell, Wikipedia will explain it better than I: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter

The Seuss excerpts seem to be anapestic tetrameter, more or less.

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:21:16 +0000

*blush* Thank you! I am highly impressed by the other poets here. You awoke my muse (she’s been sleeping on the job, tsk!)

By: Suz

Suz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:09:58 +0000

Whoa. So great, all of you.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:22:50 +0000

That is amazing Dale. Utterly fantabulous.

By: Ginjoint

Ginjoint — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:18:52 +0000

…aaaand Dale steps up to the plate and hits it outta the park! Well done!

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:07:42 +0000

Goodnight Sydney, goodnight Mo
Goodnight mood swings, high and low
Goodnight Jasmine, Janis, too
Goodnight Lois, be not so blue
Goodnight Ginger, and Samia dear
Goodnight Cynthia with your right-wing fear
Goodnight Stuart, let Sparrow be
Jiao Raizel’s enough for thee
Goodnight Toni, sleep well tonight
Goodnight Clarice – it’ll be alright
Goodnight Raffi, sleeping sound
Goodnight to dykes the world around

By: Debs

Debs — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:09:10 +0000

Thanks for the website compliments. I appreciate it, since I think only three people read my website usually.

Ooh, NLC, I’d love to see “Good Night, Mo,” personally. I love a good children’s lit parody. Would Stuart and Sparrow be “Good night guy, and good night bi?”

gofrolic.org

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:52:35 +0000

Complete website envy of Debs, defo. Mothra’s original a work of genius.

AB, you have the most talented fans, you do know that?