"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Cinquain
A cinquain is a poem with five lines in the following syllable pattern: 2/4/6/8/2. I challenge you to make one and leave it in the comments!
A fellow blogger just won her first E-bay "war." Her victory won her a mannequin to model her scarves. In an earlier post she had a beanie on a real baby. So I gave her this cinquainian congratulations:
Mannequin Cinquain
Congrats You're first purchase. E-bay certainly rocks. Too bad your baby model quit. Too bad.
My daughter Helen commented in November 2008 in her Blog that she was now keeping a notebook of new words that she came across during her reading. "This week I bought a lovely little leather bound book to write new words in as I read them . I've added a few from "1984", but my favourite has to be persiflage (from the French persifler) which means banter." I later discovered that my older daughter, Bryony, also kept a similar notebook.
This inspired me to create a Word blog. This will include both new words, favourite words and the origins of phrases that we commonly use. A definition and some comment, perhaps even a relevant quotation, will acompany the word or phrase.
“I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.” - Winnie the Pooh
A fellow blogger just won her first E-bay "war." Her victory won her a mannequin to model her scarves. In an earlier post she had a beanie on a real baby. So I gave her this cinquainian congratulations:
ReplyDeleteMannequin Cinquain
Congrats
You're first purchase.
E-bay certainly rocks.
Too bad your baby model quit.
Too bad.
Challenge me to a game of croquet and I may show some inclination to accept. A poem? I think not.
ReplyDeletePS The verification is bionic - a word!
cinquain?
ReplyDeleteSounds far too hard
Getting things to fit so
Much better for verse to flow free
No? Yes.
I found this further response from Don on
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A Monetary Cinquain
Money:
What can it buy?
Surely not happiness!
But godliness with contentment?
Great gain!