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Neville Briggs
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by Neville Briggs » Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:18 pm
I've written a one word poem, I call it....
MONOLOGOS
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
Neville Briggs
p.s. The word means the action or habit of estimating something as worthless, which is probably the reaction of the viewers to my poem.

Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
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manfredvijars
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by manfredvijars » Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:26 pm
Well Neville, are you going to complete your hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian piece in a rhyme?
(One word is very monotonous) ...

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Neville Briggs
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by Neville Briggs » Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:00 pm
Manfred. It
must rhyme, after all it is only one word, a perfect rhyme. And it must scan, the metre is perfectly consistent with itself.
Last year at Dunedoo, Milton Taylor did a two word poem. It didn't rhyme or scan, It was free verse
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Dave Smith
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by Dave Smith » Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:21 pm
Or this could be the second line in abab pattern
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolocanoconiosis
A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.
TTFN

I Keep Trying
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manfredvijars
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by manfredvijars » Mon Jan 10, 2011 6:53 pm
Sorry Nev, "a rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in
two or more words"
DAVO, I never knew you were a miner!!! ...

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Heather
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by Heather » Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:26 pm
You never fail to amuse, intrigue and educate us Neville.
I agree with Manfred though. For there to be a rhyme you must have two words.
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Dave Smith
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by Dave Smith » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:06 pm
Manfred I was but now I am a Senior and this poetry stuff has still got me Bugged.
Neville I am following your chat with Peely with great interest, syllables cause me
stress.
TFFN

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Heather
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by Heather » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:10 pm
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolocanoconiosis
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
They all sound like types of antibiotics or very very nasty diseases to me

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Dave Smith
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by Dave Smith » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:21 pm
Heather you would never want to catch any of them ‘cos ya couldn’t pronounce them for the doctor hey.
TTFN

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Heather
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by Heather » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:36 pm
No Dave, I would just say "I'm sick doc, what's wrong with me?"