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From: Michael Everson In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:19:32 +0100 Message-Id: <4FA35319-8087-4C14-A8FD-93C9942B1795@gmail.com> References: <4BB0D4DF.2070501@gmail.com> <4BB35C9A.6080903@lojban.org> <201003311307.07351.phma@phma.optus.nu> <0BF33D8E-F073-4B22-B407-292F9865EB32@gmail.com> To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of michael.everson@gmail.com designates 74.125.82.50 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=michael.everson@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com X-Original-Sender: michael.everson@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: X-Thread-Url: http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/t/62f96e395a91e500 X-Message-Url: http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/msg/58f341c54319e777 Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 31 Mar 2010, at 19:00, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > Then why is it presented in a tail form for? That is called "emblematic verse" or "figured verse". It's fun. > The visual presentation is not one of three left-facing mice, it is one m= ouse tail. Yes, but, to quote the Annotated Alice: In 1989 two New Jersey teenage students at the Pennington School, Gary Grah= am and Jeffrey Maiden, made an unusual discovery. Carroll's mouse poem has = the structure of what is know as a "tail rhyme" -- a rhyming couplet follow= ed by a short unrhymed line. By lengthening the last line, Carroll turned h= is poem into a pattern which, of printed in a traditional form as shown, re= sembles a mouse with a long tail! For details of the discovery, see "Tail i= n Tail(s): A Study Worthy of Alice's Friend" in The New York Times, May 1, = 1991, p. A23).=20 Michael --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. 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