Hot as a coal. The expression has an obvious allusion To post the coal or cole To pay or put down the cash. Coal=money has been in use in the sporting world for very many years. Buxton,…
Repetition. So called from a game which consists in some one setting a line which another is to rhyme to, but no one word of the first line must occur in the second. Dumb crambo.…
The precentor is called by Allen Ramsay “The Letter-gae of haly rhyme.” “Holy rhyme” means hymns or chants. “There were no sae mony hairs on the warlock's face as there's on Letter-gae's…
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A selection of haikus from some of the editors at Information Please:
How could you cancel?
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by Robert Burns Reply To An Announcement By J....A Poet's Welcome To His Love-B...Epistle To John Rankine Enclosing Some Poems O Rough, rude, ready-witted Rankine,
The…
(to rhyme with “snare”). To tear Christ's body. To use imprecations. The common oaths of mediaeval times were by different parts of the Lord's body, hence the preachers used to talk of “…
The ravelled sleave of care Shakespeare: Macbeth). The sleave is the knotted or entangled part of thread or silk, the raw edge of woven articles. Chaucer has “sleeveless words” (words like…
It was Porson who said he could rhyme on any subject; and being asked to rhyme upon the three Latin gerunds, gave this couplet - When Dido found Æneas would not come, She mourned in…
properly speaking, are either hexameter verses, or alternate hexameter and pentameter verses, rhyming at the middle and end of each respective line. These fancies were common in the 12th…
Woodnotes IIAs sunbeams stream through liberal space
And nothing jostle or displace,
So waved the pine-tree through my thought
And fanned the dreams it never brought.'Whether is better, the…
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