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rymenhild*To be fair, I'm less stumped than I was when I met with my advisor this afternoon.
Anyway, my newest procrastination mode: I write double dactyls about the texts I'm studying.
Stalworthy, schmalworthy,
Kitchen knave Havelok
Married a princess
In Lincoln, one night,
Fell asleep, mouth open,
Illuminatingly.
Cried Goldeborw,
Our future is bright!
**
Watery fluttery
Brendan the Voyager
Plus sixty pilgrims de-
Cided to sail.
Halfway to Eden, they
Stopped on an island, but
Exploratorially
Called it a whale.
**
Maybe I'll write more of these on the plane tomorrow. (I'm flying east for spring break and Passover.) I'm still trying to figure out what I can do with the nicely double-dactylic word "historiographers."
In the meantime, you all should try some. Remember, two stanzas of four lines each, first line is gibberish, second line is someone's name, one line in the second stanza consists of a single six-syllable word, and fourth and eighth line rhyme.
Anyway, my newest procrastination mode: I write double dactyls about the texts I'm studying.
Stalworthy, schmalworthy,
Kitchen knave Havelok
Married a princess
In Lincoln, one night,
Fell asleep, mouth open,
Illuminatingly.
Cried Goldeborw,
Our future is bright!
**
Watery fluttery
Brendan the Voyager
Plus sixty pilgrims de-
Cided to sail.
Halfway to Eden, they
Stopped on an island, but
Exploratorially
Called it a whale.
**
Maybe I'll write more of these on the plane tomorrow. (I'm flying east for spring break and Passover.) I'm still trying to figure out what I can do with the nicely double-dactylic word "historiographers."
In the meantime, you all should try some. Remember, two stanzas of four lines each, first line is gibberish, second line is someone's name, one line in the second stanza consists of a single six-syllable word, and fourth and eighth line rhyme.
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Date: 2010-03-19 03:10 am (UTC)Qwa-qwa-qwa qwa-qwa-qwa,
Duck - wait, no, Ahiru -
- maybe she's Tutu now -
Who can keep track?
Well, say "our heroine"
Accomodatingly
Joins in the story but
Adds her own "quack!"
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Date: 2010-03-19 03:38 am (UTC)Anteaterina was
desperately longing for
partnered ballet.
Tried out a pas-de-deux
tragicomedical,
departed stage left
with a sobbing sashay.
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Date: 2010-03-19 03:50 am (UTC)"Say, Drosselmeyer-san,
How should this tale finish,
If I might pry?"
Sipping his tea, the old
Epistolarian
Said, "Well, that's easy,
Have everyone die!"
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Date: 2010-03-19 03:53 am (UTC)I'll have to go think for a while before I can come up with something good enough to cap that with.
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Date: 2010-03-19 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-19 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-19 01:52 pm (UTC)Here, have a non-Tutu one, because it's more fun than work:
Agony-angstily,
Vanyel the Herald-Mage
Sat in the rain weeping
Crystalline tears.
How could you say that it's
Melodramatical?
You see, HIS BOYFRIEND'S DEAD!
(Has been for years.)
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Date: 2010-03-19 04:26 pm (UTC)I had to take my computer out of the suitcase to post this one
Date: 2010-03-19 04:33 pm (UTC)Lymond of Sevigny's
Talented to an
Outrageous degree-
Hundreds of conquests
And lovers, despite being
Antiheroical
And twenty-three.
Re: I had to take my computer out of the suitcase to post this one
Date: 2010-03-19 04:38 pm (UTC)Okay that one I'm not sure I can top. *_* *_* *_*