The lyrics “…maple surple” are from an old Roger Miller song called “Dang me”.
If you want some more of those invented word rhymes, check out some Ogden Nash poetry
This is from one called “common cold”
Give ear, you scientific fossil!
Here is the genuine Cold Colossal;
The Cold of which researchers dream,
The Perfect Cold, the Cold Supreme.
This honored system humbly holds
The Super-cold to end all colds;
The Cold Crusading for Democracy;
The Führer of the Streptococcracy.
Take note, all you would be poets, for there has never been a better line in a poem than, “The Führer of the Streptococcracy”
Originally posted by David Kelly someone wanna help me out?
Saying rhyme by itself lacks a sufficient adjective, so it can therefore be interpreted as any of the above. However, if you wish to enforce the rule that they must have the same ununciation (sp?) in order for them to rhyme say “The words xxx and yyy don’t fit my definition of rhyme because they zzz rhyme, rather than full rhyme”. . replacing xxx, yyy and zzz accordingly
Eddie, you shoulda learned this by now. Haven’t you read Shakespeare’s poetry?If anyone makes any negative remarks about Shakespeare I’ll scream so loud your monitor will crack! There are even such rhymes as forced rhymes that really don’t sound anything alike. They are still considered to be rhymes. Nothing in the English language is without exception so…
Originally posted by Eddie McD
They aren’t rhymes. They have to have the exact same sound at the end like moon & noon.
…except in the instances of…
*Originally posted by David Kelly *
half rhyme, near rhyme, off rhyme, or slant rhyme
Do ya get it now? You don’t have to understand it or even like it but face it, that’s the way it is. You can’t change it so don’t make yourself seem uneducated (I’m not saying that you are just that you make it sound that way by your comments).
There’s nothing wrong with Shakespeare. If you remember, on the old forums there was a thread about fav. quotes, Shakespeare shwed up a lot. It’s really not that bad if you read the good plays.
yeah, well ill have to remember to tell my english teachers that. but i dont know…cuz even if you read good ones the teachers still gonna take a month per act and completely analyze the goodness out of it.
People were talking earlier about making up words to make things rhyme. Has anyone ever read the poem Jaberwocky by Lewis Carroll? My freshman English teacher, the loon she was, made us replace all of the non-sense words with real words, keeping the same rythm and rhyme sceme to the poem. Needless to say, I didn’t complete that assignement (oops!). The words are below.
~Angela who never thought she would ever mention freshman English again
The Jaberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffing through the tugey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jaberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did grye and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
*Originally posted by littlefish180 *
**People were talking earlier about making up words to make things rhyme. Has anyone ever read the poem Jaberwocky by Lewis Carroll? My freshman English teacher, the loon she was, made us replace all of the non-sense words with real words, keeping the same rythm and rhyme sceme to the poem. Needless to say, I didn’t complete that assignement (oops!). The words are below.
~Angela who never thought she would ever mention freshman English again
The Jaberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffing through the tugey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jaberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did grye and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. **
I LOVE that poem, i memorized it because nonsense poetry is SUCH an ispiration to my own work. Well goto go
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