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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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One of my A level English Lit exam questions was "Is The Canterbury Tales doggerel?".
Yes. At least, I said it was and got a C.
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:25, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

goes on for 15 verses. It was for a larp thing and had a magic ability that anyone who heard the first verse was transfixed until the last. I am a git.
If you like I could find it for you now?
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:27, Reply)

They actually were pretty epic.
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:28, Reply)

And every day there'd be about 6 special trains to Morecambe and back.
That's two neat bookends of my life (born near Morecambe, live in Bradford) and I've always fancied writing a doggerel epic of a day to Morecambe, but defining every hour with a different pentameter to express the emotions.
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:35, Reply)

I remember thining yyou'd have liked the poetry thread.
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:32, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1602653
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:49, Reply)

All it lacks is the syntax-defying wranglings that only the truly bad use to effect a plausible scan - eg:-
I thought tonight that to the pub I'd go
But then in the back of my mind I did know
That I must take my cat to the vet on the morrow
And if a night in The Thornhill I did choose
I'd roll up at the vets stinking of booze
And to the RSPCA my kitty I'd lose.
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:56, Reply)

I did another one about a haggis, but it's less long
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1602661
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 20:57, Reply)

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( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 21:15, Reply)

You could make money.
( , Fri 27 Apr 2012, 21:23, Reply)
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