For six years, in secret, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli wrote almost a sonnet a day. As a native Italian, he had resolved to write poetry in the tongue of the common Roman. He held nothing back as he imposed vulgar speech upon the sonnet form.
Eric Ormsby of The New York Sun wrote an excellent [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
