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Thread #26774   Message #333460
Posted By: L R Mole
03-Nov-00 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: More limericks, eh? Part 3 [7]
Subject: RE: More limericks, eh? Part 3
ANAPESTIC BULLETIN (doo-dah...): I've heard it said that it's the opposite to the heartbeat, and therefore can physically weaken people who hear it (?); that there are lots in the Stones' music but none in the Beatles' (not true: I think "Come together" is an anapestic rhythm if not lyric) and that remembering anapests hasn't been a problem for students since Queen's "We Will Rock You". Anyway, I like a/Rattling Anapest/Better than Limericks./Where is the crime? I throw my collar up/Pocket my hands and go/Rhymically whistling/Three-quarter time.