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Starting young
Shanghai :: China | 3 months ago
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This Spring holiday we suggest you take a trip to the museums...Even though it is the winter vacation, it does not mean that children's education comes to a halt. The first weekend after Beijing's primary and secondary schools started a four-week
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A couplet without a rhyme
Medford :: OR :: USA | 4 months ago
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MailTribune.com for the Mail Tribune When the couplet came to Medford in 1958, stressed-out auto drivers thought it was really great sort of. Now, if the word couplet makes you think of your favorite Shakespeare sonnet, think again...The street
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Seasons greetings! Our annual holiday card to readers, in verse
Boston :: MA :: USA | 5 months ago
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The hearth is lit and here we are To welcome all ye faithful who Would share a cup of our yule brew: A mashed-up missive, couplet-ized And sent each year in warm reprise To readers who, as Christmas dawns, Might fetch it from their frosted lawns.
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Jack's tale
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Silt Whisper begins with a signal that breaking and making rules could be significant. Photograph: Robert Sullivan/AFP/Getty Images This week's poem, Silt Whisper is by Ailbhe Darcy, and comes from her lively first collection, Imaginary Menagerie (
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A couple(t) of points?
Mumbai :: India | 10 months ago
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There were couplets in the past, now they come dressed up as complete poems in 140 characters, to be precise In the land of The Mahabharatha , poems got just briefer...Once speaking the language of Vyas, today they cater to the whims, the moods, the
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Twitter account Pentametron retweets messages in iambic form
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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15 May 2012 Every wondered how Shakespeare would tweet if he were alive today? Well now one Twitter account has taken inspiration from the heralded author by retweeting random musings that form the perfect rhyming couplets. The technique was popular
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Indian origin programmer turns tweets into poems
Noida :: India | 1 year ago
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Ranjit Bhatnagar's algorithm scans millions of Twitter postings to find rhyming couplets in Shakespearean-style iambic pentameter and turn them into sonnets. There are great tidal waves of language sloshing around the planet all the time, and
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An epic revisited
Mumbai :: India | 1 year ago
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Tamil epic Thirukkural' has many translations in Malayalam, both in verse and in prose...This book differs from the previous ones in that the English version of each couplet too is given, along with the corresponding Malayalam translation in verse
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Weird Internets: The Amazing Found-on-Twitter Sonnets of Pentametron [Weird Internets]
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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The Amazing Found-on-Twitter Sonnets of Pentametron Weird Internets is a series in which we spotlight and explore funny, bizarre, or otherwise interesting corners of the internet. Today, we examine Pentametron, a Twitter bot that writes sonnets by
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DVD: Acts of Godfrey (15)
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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This low-budget oddity, which is performed entirely in rhyming couplets, starts with a drenched, stark naked salesman, Victor (Iain Robertson), and a ripe Simon Callow voiceover explaining why this poor unfortunate has ended up in this predicament.
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