Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Proposal- Loose Ends

[athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:56:03PM -0400, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> 
> On Jul 23, 2004, at 11.28 PM, athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:48:10PM -0400, Norinel wrote:
> >>
> >>Change the third stanza of r437.A.4 to:
> >>{{If this seems like quite an Onus,
> >>Or it seems too monotonous,
> >>This form's got a nifty Bonus:
> >>Ten score points, that won't harm!}}
> >>
> >>[[Definitely seeking a better idea for something that removes the 
> >>Charm
> >>reference and still scans.]]
> >
> >What song is that subsection supposed to match, anyway?
> >
> >Note that "charm" doesn't actually rhyme with anything else anyway,
> >so you could do something like "Ten score points, but no more" just as
> >well.
> 
> It matched "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"; I personally like rhyming 
> Charm and Form more than Form and More, as I'd prefer matching the 
> closing consonants, especially while many accents actually will rhyme 
> 'charm' and 'form' to a close approximation, very few dialects of 
> english could possibly match 'form' with 'more'.

Well, if it's supposed to rhyme "form", what's wrong with "Ten score
points is the norm"?

Zarpint
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