Word: rhymed
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...IMAGINATIVE INVENTIONS By Charise Mericle Harper. $14.95 This is that rare example of a children's book that's fact-filled without being dull. The "facts" are not necessarily useful or even true, which may be why the book is so much fun. In rhyme, it narrates how items such as Frisbees and piggyback rides and potato chips were invented. Harper wrote and illustrated this book, her second, and she has a spry, zippy style with pen and with brush...
After that? Family law. But in the meantime she may as well take a breather and reflect on an illustrious career as Harvard’s ultimate do-gooder wannabe socialite. She describes it best herself, and in rhyme to boot: “Now Theta, Now Isis, Now the Pudding and more/ I guess I became a kind of social club whore...
...What are the forms of your poems? Do they have meter and rhyme...
...write poems with attention to what sounds good. Sometimes this means that they will have meter or rhyme. Right now I’ve been writing poems using syllabics where each stanza has a pattern of numbers of syllables in each lines—a haiku is a type of syllabic poem. Marianne Moore uses this form a lot in her early poetry. She’s known for precision, she’s interested in classification of things...
...mixing rasta rhythms with driving rock riffs. They combine standard instrumentation—drums, electric guitars and bass—with bits of vocal scat like “skittleedat dat dat, well how ‘bout that?” which augment a strong lyrical use of rhyme and alliteration. They also have a saxophone to inject a little bit of jazz into a few of songs...