Wednesday, May 02, 2007

20/365

Aside from it being Fire Day (Josh), today is Poetry Day.

Your task is to help me create the world's longest poem by submitting one line in iambic pentameter (ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum ti-tum), in which each of the ten syllables trip off the tongue effortlessly. William Shakespeare wrote mostly in iambic pentameter.

Here are the first two lines for you to go on:

Mercy, cried the popinjay to the pope,
Who threw him out of the second window...

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