11-25-2023, 12:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-25-2023, 12:15 AM by RiverNotch.)
The English language is a gateway drug
to learning other tongues, it borrows words
as liberally as London "borrows" funds
from the grim North, power from Wales, and food
from starving Irish farmers. The "only" problem:
Dante could make his Tuscan epic sing
for more than a thousand lines of Terza rima,
identical endings in French may be sustained
for much more than four lines, but greedy English
rhymes cheap when easy, overdone when hard.
to learning other tongues, it borrows words
as liberally as London "borrows" funds
from the grim North, power from Wales, and food
from starving Irish farmers. The "only" problem:
Dante could make his Tuscan epic sing
for more than a thousand lines of Terza rima,
identical endings in French may be sustained
for much more than four lines, but greedy English
rhymes cheap when easy, overdone when hard.