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Re: [lojban] la .alis.

On 31 Mar 2010, at 19:00, Jorge Llambías 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 mouse tail.

Yes, but, to quote the Annotated Alice:

In 1989 two New Jersey teenage students at the Pennington School, Gary Graham 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 followed by a short unrhymed line. By lengthening the last line, Carroll turned his poem into a pattern which, of printed in a traditional form as shown, resembles a mouse with a long tail! For details of the discovery, see "Tail in Tail(s): A Study Worthy of Alice's Friend" in The New York Times, May 1, 1991, p. A23). 

Michael

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