Sunday, 10 May 2009

MAGMAnimous (For Gale)


There lived a man in Forest Hill
Whose poems were famous in Brazil
They moved them to samba
Drove mad in Uganda
Those groovy verses from Forest Hill

3 comments:

cryptic42 said...

Nice title, but how does it relate to the verses? Have I missed something?
Scansion not quite right, and sorry, but I am not a fan of Lear's method of repeating first line rhyme in last line.

ewa said...

Thanks very much!

cryptic42 said...

OK. The MAGMA I appreciated, and I have taken the trouble to look up the meaning of magnanimous. Clearly I have not been this here.
Very generous or forgiving. From Latin magnanimus magnus = great + animus = soul.
Belated apologies.
But still Leary of Lear's last lines.

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