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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549311" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Critique Of Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem is a sorry thing, <br>Not fit for reading to a king: <br>It’s often full of silly rhymes<br>That waste a lot of people’s times.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But modern poets can’t rhyme at all, <br>Which really is abominable; <br>Their rhythm quickly gets all out of whack, <br>Because I guess it just seems like for rhythm and rhyme they don’t have the necessary knack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Phrases created on demand<br>Which nobody can understand, <br>Like wool that's thrown across a fence<br>And stirred until it is quite dense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Syntax gets twisted out of shape<br>Not unlike a grinning ape -<br>Examples which of, I think cannot, <br>So, yet to learn have I a lot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poems do not make much sense<br>When talking of abstract sentiments<br>Or waffle philosophical<br>On subjects what ain’t topical.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poem can be so abstruse<br>It makes you feel you’re quite obtuse; <br>You scratch your head until it’s sore, <br>And still can’t follow any more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So poets often write of love, <br>Usually rhymed with “heaven above”, <br>Neither of which they know about -<br>But mostly they are not found out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And many a poet is a bore<br>With simile and metaphor<br>That fill up many an empty line<br>With silly thoughts like yours and mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A simile is like a ball<br>(Or maybe not - I can’t recall) , <br>Or like a man who runs around<br>And never seems to touch the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A metaphor’s a stranger’s child, <br>And so to you it might seem wild; <br>But just when you think, “This is rum! ”<br>It up and bites you in the part of the anatomy on which a homo sapiens normally sits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, if you think you’ve got my drift, <br>Then you have a very special gift, <br>‘Cause I can’t understand myself -<br>So, best to leave me on the shelf!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rory+Hudson">Rory Hudson</a><div class=q>
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Not fit for reading to a king: 
It’s often full of silly rhymes
That waste a lot of people’s times.

But modern poets can’t rhyme at all, 
Which really is abominable; 
Their rhythm quickly gets all out of whack, 
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