What happened to my post? What, what? Does this site kick you off if you're logged on too long?
I had written an example by Dr. Samuel Johnson:
"Your manuscript is both good and original;
but the part that is good is not original,
and the part that is original is not good."
And a couple by Sor Juana from her Hombres Necios:
"Or which is more to be blamed--
though both will have cause for chagrin:
the woman who sins for money
or the man who pays money to sin?
So why are you men all so stunned
at the thought you're all guilty alike?
Either like them for what you've made them
or make of them what you can like."
They are simply lines that mirror each other and can be clever and funny. They also make language interesting. I put a few in the poem I just posted -- not good ones, perhaps, but some of the lines do mirror each other.
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