Peter, I think you're confusing the wretched Poetess with the 'I'. She is praising it in inverted commas. I am damning it (and her) with none. Perhaps it would be clearer like this?
"Free verse", said the Poetess sapphically,
"Is the bees' knees", and simpered seraphically.
But it gets up my nose, for it’s really just prose
That’s been buggered about typographically.
Last edited by Brian Allgar; 10-02-2013 at 08:07 AM.
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