There Once Was A Poet Of Ireland, A Bore An' A Pest... Poem by Michael Shepherd

There Once Was A Poet Of Ireland, A Bore An' A Pest...

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If a dactyl’s reversed, it’s then called by the name ‘anapest’,
Used by Browning and Swinburne for horses and wolves in their haste;
Though Matt Arnold of Rugby found sadness could be to its taste,
It’s the writers of limericks use it – alas – to excess...

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David Nelson Bradsher 20 September 2005

A fun one, Michael. Nice little epigram. I've been doing a few of these myself.

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Michael Shepherd

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