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Originally Posted by Brian Allgar
I couldn't help wondering if it could be done as a palindromic paracrostic.
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Well, of course you couldn't, Brian. A fellow performer once said about Laurence Olivier (I'm paraphrasing), "The wonderful thing about working with Larry is that nobody else would think to say, 'As I say this next line, I think I'll throw myself backwards across the table.' " When you've got the chops, you get the urge to use them.
I mucked around for a while trying to find an acrostic phrase spelled with letters that could end 16 lines of rhyme. I didn't succeed, but it ought to be possible given the number of words that rhyme while ending different letters:
zoo/through/blue/chew/you/coup/roux/ragout
fly/high/eye/radii
show/go/although/bon mot
flax/axe/attacks
comb/home/foam
etc.