I found this poem which is a rhyme about rhymes. Pretty clever.
RHYME OF OXFORD COCKNEY RHYMES
Though Keats rhymed “ear” to “Cytherea,”
And Morris “dawn” to “morn,”
A worse example, it is clear,
By Oxford Dons is “shorn.”
G-y, of Magdalen, goes beyond
These puny Cockneys far,
And to “Magrath” rhymes–Muse despond! -
“Magrath” he rhymes to “star”!
Another poet, X. Y. Z.,
Employs [...]
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Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes – by Andrew Lang
Posted in Across the Pond, Poetry, tagged Andrew Lang, Art, Classics, Cockney, English Slang, Poetry, Rhyming, Slang, Slanguage, Writing on October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
