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[abigailbrady]

I have started writing a description of the boundary of Greater London in iambic pentameter.

Uxbridge is where our Journey will Begin;
where Oxford Road does bridge the River Colne;
our Boundary does chase the Torrent north;
til Hertfordshire we touch, and then go East

i may have gone a little crazy.

you see, someone asked on IRC to what extent were we allowed to use official government maps which actually define boundaries. and i said, no, you can't. but you can use the prose descriptions attached to them. and then i said that, come to think of it, you could use verse descriptions attached to them, as well, were there any.

Comments

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

now you have to write A Sonnet To Buckinghamshire or Greater Woking or something like that.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

I've got far more stanzas of this to do, yet.

I wonder if I can get in the word 'Girt' in there somewhere.

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I know. Anglesea is girt by water! Use that!

[thatmakesmemad.livejournal.com]

Its the cold getting to you. you'll pull an Oates if not careful. Go to your doctor for a prescription for a boiler repair

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

when it's done it will be a Great Work.
do you know Smoke? content and quality variable but i like it.

[tea-cantata.livejournal.com]

The two middle lines aren't quite iambic pentameter, but would be with the addition of two syllables each. This looks like prospective glorious silliness, though.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

I swear they had ten syllables when I typed them!

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

This is excellent :)