Our lovely Julie (Steiner) said this on my thread over on Metrical, delighting several of us:
It might be fun to replace the octave's semicolons and colons with full stops, to make it feel more constipated and "going nowhere." "
Now, in true
Spectator and
Oldie style, "you are invited to write a poem which includes the word ''constipated" or "constipation".
[I doubt anyone can say, "Here's one I wrote earlier"
]
Jayne