On the subject of poems featuring typography...sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when I was young and impressionable, I read this in
Reader's Digest:
Pretty Mary donned her skates,
Upon the ice to frisk.
Wasn't she a silly girl,
Her little * ?
I also recall seeing (more recently, in a book of light verse) a series of quatrains traded back and forth by a couple of small-circulation American newspapers, featuring all sorts of typographical oddities (ampersands, double daggers, pointing hands) in rhyming positions. I think the topic of the poems was a news item about a donkey. Does this ring any bells with anyone? (Or ding any bats?)
Julie
Older and Still Impressionable (at least partially)
PS--Oh, and there's this centuries-old puzzle poem, too, which leaves out some much-needed punctuation.
http://brer-powerofbabel.blogspot.co...-favorite.html
It annoyed me for years because it was printed in several anthologies of children's verse without explanation, and I'm sorry to say that I sorely required the explanation. Which I stumbled across only about ten years ago. The link above includes it. You're welcome.
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