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08-30-2009, 12:28 PM
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Just to mention that there is another exception to the octosyllabics among the Cautionary Tales, "Aunt Jane" which is in anapaestic stanzas (alternating tetrameter and trimeter) rhyming ABAB.
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08-30-2009, 06:06 PM
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oops
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Last edited by Terese Coe; 09-02-2009 at 10:45 AM.
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08-30-2009, 06:52 PM
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Some marvellous stuff here. My problem isn't that I can't write cautionary poems but that I have never twittered nor texted nor been texted or twittered at in my life. So alas I leave it to Roger who is brilliant.
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08-30-2009, 08:45 PM
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Thanks, Janet.
I've redone the last two lines of my "Johnny" poem. Here's the last stanza as edited:
In fact it was a Man named Jim
Who took a knife and Limb by Limb
And bloody Slice by bloody Slice
Showed Johnny that his Folks' Advice
Was wiser than he'd known before.
Now Johnny chats online no more.
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08-30-2009, 08:51 PM
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I'd like it more, Rajah, if it weren't so utterly disgusting. 
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08-30-2009, 10:41 PM
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I like it how it is, sheets of blood and all.
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08-31-2009, 01:36 AM
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Terese I like your poem. Janet, I have the same problem.
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08-31-2009, 11:31 AM
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Virtual Pillow Talk
My darling, how I yearn to hear
sweet nothings while we're having sex.
So if you'd be my lover, dear,
then you had better learn to text.
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08-31-2009, 11:42 AM
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Marion, are you teaching kids safe text?
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08-31-2009, 12:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Orwn Acra
Marion, are you teaching kids safe text?
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Yeeks! My 13-year old son texts almost constantly! What should I tell him?
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