Block Day: Formative Verses

* Open

* J12

* Some new forms

• Limerick
• A Young Lady of Lynn
• The was an Old Man with a Beard
• "A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett"
• "How awkward when playing with glue"

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

• Let's hunt a pest...an anapest.
• Definition
• Let's take a screen shot of a Limerick and edit it on our iPads. 
• William Tell Overture Overtaken by Mom (youtube; compliments of per. 3)

• Clerihew :
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• Jackson Pollock
• It was a weakness of Voltaire’s
       To forget to say his prayers,
  And one which to his shame
       He never overcame.
• Noah’s
  Boas
  Kept his hares
  In Pairs.
  ~ Sue Lampi (1994)
• George Orwell
  Answered the doorbell.
  Big Brother’s Pizza at the door,
  Two with pepperoni, $19.84.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

• A clerihew with an ABCB rhyme scheme:
• The ignorant pronounce it Frood,
         To cavil or applaud.
  The Well-informed pronounce it Froyd,
         But I pronounce it Fraud.

  

  G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

   

* CWP

* Grammar Review

HW: Work on your CWP