02-11-2016, 01:16 AM
(02-11-2016, 01:15 AM)RiverNotch Wrote: I accept your apology, not for the verse, which was fun, but for rhyming "nourished" with "bread" and "stead" -- or at least that's how I read it.Ah - no, it's a spoof of 'Tell me where is fancy bred' from the Merchant of Venice!
the last strophe is an allusion to another poem, 'It was a lover and his lass' - from Love's Labour's Lost
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe

