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On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Stan Kelly-Bootle wrote:
> I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;
> I gallop’d, Dirck gallop’d, we gallop’d all three ...
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> It rattles on breathlessly like this for 9 more stanzas with the
> same, relentlessly-rhyming tetrametric iambic sextets!
Opps, clearly anapestic:
I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;
as in:
He SPRANG to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle
or:
This saying good-bye on the edge of the dark
And cold to an orchard so young in the bark
–(yup)Frost, Good-bye, and Keep Cold
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