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Re: [lojban] la .alis.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Michael Everson
<michael.everson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That is called "emblematic verse" or "figured verse". It's fun.
Exactly. Visual 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).
I don't know if we are disagreeing about anything at this point. The
"tail rhyme" structure is an intrinsic part of the text, whether in
written or spoken form. The tail shape is only a fun feature of the
written text, not reflected in the spoken text.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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