I'm sure you've all read that "Skua" poem I wrote..well, more of a "verse" really. It's 2 posts back. I hope you all liked it. But I 'm not the first to write silly word-twisting things like that. Not by a long way..... Here's a few of Ogden Nash's complicated verses I'm tried pick some good'uns , but I'm not sure which the worstis but he's cleverer that I am With the the spondee and the iamb but as for the pentameter he's basically an ameter. THE PLATYPUS I like the duck-billed platypus Because it is anomalous. I like the way it raises its family, Partly birdly, partly mammaly. I like its independent attitude. Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude. FRAGONARD There was an old miser named Clarence Who simonised both of his parents. " The initial expense," He remarked, " is immense, But I'll save it on wearance and tearance." BENJAMIN There was a brave girl of Connecticut Who flagged the express with her pecticut, Which her elders defined As presence of mind, But deplorable absence of ecticut. THE COBRA This creature fills its mouth with venum And walks upon its duodenum, He who attempts to tease the cobra Is soon a sadder he, and sobra. INTROSPECTIVE REFLECTION I would live my life in nonchalance and insouciance Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. Well .... I wouldn't like you to think I've just nicked the idea from him ... it's been a long road which many have walked.... and let's hope we can all walk along it forever ...
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