Pathetic in scansion and feeble in rhyming,
In imagery wanting, and awkward in timing
In feeling, too callow; in thoughts, rather thin.
Unpleasing in shape, for the shape it is in.
In creative powers, most wan and frenetic--
The stuff of this thread, sir, is hardly poetic.
Reflecting, I think, were you in your right head,
You'd have named this invention the Doggerel Thread.

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