On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Damien Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:53:32PM -0800, Philip Hart wrote: > > http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~philiph/bagel.htm > > > it would be a bit much for breakfast. Not to mention the meter and rhyme > > scheme. > > Er, what are the meter and rhyme scheme? I don't see anything regular, apart > from all the lines ending in 'l'. That's a rhyme scheme, rather a ridiculous one. Call it a slant-rhyme scheme if you're hard-core. I think the poem's loosely iambic, more from it being in English than conscious design. But anyway, I was trying to make a joke about how foul lutefisk is (see the snippage) - just putting it into the poem would set the rhyme and meter awry. That's my last po-mo poetry joke for the year.