Thursday, November 3, 2011
Poets, would you like to share in the findings of my scientific research ?
I think the cobra and Benford's Law join to make for a very interesting bit of dipecation at the end. The poem reminds me of Pope's Essay on Man, especially the `miracle of memory and dreams,' which resonates so much with British empiricism. Your last line is delightful, and rather Dantean if I may say so, though the tone of voice of the rest of the poem is not. The feminine rhymes contribute a rather Italianate metrical flavour, and while I find terza rima very difficult to write in English, I think yours flows with the chattiness and smoothness of an improvvisatore who has strayed from ottava rima-- quite an interesting contrast to the heft of what one is accustomed to reading in this rhyme scheme.
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