[William A. Baurle]

Originally Posted by Lance Levens

Thanks, John and Brian, for the thumbs up. "Tarantella" it is, John. I'll send in a corrected version. Williamb: wouldn't it be great if Koch had chosen rhyme and meter and fixed forms?

Koch wrote quite a bit in fixed forms. In fact he has two very long poems in Ottava Rima, I believe, but they are not nonsense poems. Yes, I do think if Koch had written some nonsense in R&M, they would have been quite memorable.

Now I'll have to dredge up my Koch to see if I can find something of interest....


**Lots of Koch available for e-readers: There's a book on Amazon which you can see a sample of. The first poem looks like ottava rima with an alexandrine at the end, maybe a try at melding the Spenserian with ottava rima? But not nonsense verse, so I removed the link.