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Abigail Brady ([personal profile] abigailbrady) wrote2008-02-04 11:26 pm
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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.

[identity profile] annie-lyne.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
now you have to write A Sonnet To Buckinghamshire or Greater Woking or something like that.

[identity profile] thatmakesmemad.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] blue-mai.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
when it's done it will be a Great Work.
do you know Smoke? content and quality variable but i like it.

[identity profile] tea-cantata.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] pjc50.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This is excellent :)