Chris o'Carroll carried our banner not once but twice, for he is also Smith. So our transatlantic flavour is back and the Brits this week are vanquished. Well done Chris!
The competition looks something we can all do. The Hiawatha metre is so easy you can churn it out all day - which Longfellow did, after all. Carroll (Lewis) has a marvellous poem about photography which is worth looking up.
No. 2653: Trochaic
You are invited to submit a poem, written in the metre of Longfellow’s ‘The Song of Hiawatha’, describing Hiawatha’s experiences at his computer (16 lines maximum). Please email entries, where possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 23 June.
Speccie: Trochaic
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