Word: rhymes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life in his pictures. His Feast may actually represent his own family, and he may be the laughing man facing the observer. The baby of the crowd wears a paper crown and rules the festivities. The older children seem to be playing a game like that in the nursery rhyme, "Jack be nimble...
...determined to capture not only the literal meaning but the intricate minuets of La Fontaine's rhyme schemes. Two things made the task gargantuan:1) Jean de la Fontaine was one of the cleverest versifiers in all literature; 2) Miss Moore started with the seemingly fatal handicap of only three years of school French. Her first try was so faulty that it had to be thrown away. (Said her mother, who did know French: "This is so coarse, and French is so delicate.") Some of the fables Miss Moore translated ten times before she and her editor were satisfied...
...knows neither reason nor rhyme...
...Dimensions of the Sea" contains a good verbal and rhythmic description of the ocean in the first verse, but falters as the second verse slips into an apostrophe to a microcosmic dream. Keith Highet wrote "And In the Comment Did I Find Charm" within a somewhat limiting rhyme and meter scheme. The poem, like Peter Junger's "Two Kings" is innocuous, but pleasant. I trust that's all the writers intended...
...appeal. Another deft stroke for the trade was "You, you, you, I'm in love with you, you, you," a song whose pedestrian melody never caught the fire of its lyrics. There is a sleeper, just released, called "Kissing Bridge" that should sell on the basis of its one rhyme: "To the old Kissing Bridge with its roof made of wood, ev'ry old fashioned wolf took his Red Riding Hood...