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April 10, 2022

APR 10, a brief singable saga: Anglo-Latin (and -Greek)

PARODY-SONGLINK: These verses were originally conceived as poetic lyrics. However, they can, like almost all limericks, be easily sung using certain well-known tunes.

Click HERE to access ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany the song ("The Delights of Anglo-Latin") on your favorite instrument.

But, if you are interested only in the lyrics, continue with the presentation that follows ...

For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year.

Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and the OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. All this effort is worthwhile, as the resulting lyrics can easily be adapted for singing!

To access next month's 'brief saga', proceed to 'echoic binomials (Eco-pairs)'

To review the most recent month's 'brief saga', back up to 'bequest'.