Stop it, you dactyllers!
Ears were not meant to be
battered with anapests
turned on their head!

Dactyls are ugly, though,
churned out compulsively.
Sorry to break the news...
it had to be said.

Spastically-dastardly
Dactyllic addicts we
cannot prevent the per
verse things we do.

Sick and unhealthy we're
fetish-obsessionists -
it seems that poor Roger's been
hooked on them too.



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Dastardly bastards, we
caused a catastrophe--
Roger is rhyming with
dactylic glee.

Question is whether he
likes the inversion of:
Frostian anapests/
Annabelle Lee?

Mortified-shortified,
I've been committing an
unwitting error in
one-two-three time!

Technically speaking, I
need a long word before
double-dactyllically
ending my rhyme.


[This message has been edited by RosaRugosa (edited January 15, 2003).]

Witty-group-shitty-poop,
this is much harder to
do when you're trying to
follow the rules.

Cranking out cretinous
crap is incredibly
uncomplicatedly
facile for fools.

Here I was thinking that
what I was writing was
proper and prim and cor-
rect to a fault.

Now that I see I'm a
dactyllic doofus, I'm
insert-an-adverb-here
brought to a halt.

Double-D-doggedly,
trebly tenacious, I'm
more contumacious than
ever before,

foolishly mulishly
uncompromisingly
bent on unbendingly
trying once more.

* * *

Billowy-Brillo-y,
Rosa Rugosa has
hair that could scour a
pan or a pot,

though an expensive con-
ditioner's promise of
manageability
cost her a lot.

* * *

Fumbly-bumbly,
President W
stumbles each time he
expresses his views,

pleasing reporters with
quasi-grammatical
post-conversational
fodder for news.

* * *

Awesomely-jawsomely,
Willie Mae "Big Mama"
thundered out "Hound Dog"
much better than Elvis.

Presley, of course, sold more
records because of his
gyromagnetically
gifted young pelvis.




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"Guilty!" the jury said.
"Capital punishment
seems far too good for this
dactyllic thug!"

"Mercy!" I begged the judge.
"I am the victim here!
How can you blame me for
catching a bug?"

"Blamelessly?" Aimlessly
Justicar Concobar
writ down this judgment of
Roger, to wit:

Poets and muses have
sexual liasons,
but metaphorically,
Roger, you git.

Bentally-mentally
Roger your straight jacket's
ready and waiting, so
hurry up, please!

Your plea is 'Over-ruled!'
psycho-somatical
problems are not a con-
tagious disease.


Kevin - stop cross-posting with better responses, will ya?

Actually, that one deserves an award for 'Best Character Appraisal'



[This message has been edited by Jerry Glenn Hartwig (edited January 15, 2003).]

Simile, metaphor,
analog, parable,
icon or symbol or
figure of speech,

trope or synecdoche...
absent comparison,
no one could comprehend,
no one could teach.




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