moonriver's fairyland

Law of Nature

A wilting bloom was taken off her base,
which once a twig but now a dying branch.
Adieu, with her blue tears on glummer face,
and soon the dreamy world began to blanch.

For her who drives away the morning's cold
and warms her heart on every chilly night?
To where a cozy room can she behold
and who will take her home from sorry plight?

Without a winter rivers run in flood
The seasons' circle that brings up a year
Revive, when next spring lets all branches bud
The bloom will truly always have her dear

Is yet the former branch her beloved one
and still she calls the branch her only hon?

---By CalmSea - 2006-11-24---


Scansion of 'Law of Nature'

A wilting bloom was taken off her base,
/ a WILT / ing BLOOM / was TAK / en OFF / her BASE /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/

which once a twig but now a dying branch.
/ which ONCE / a TWIG / but NOW / a DY / ing BRANCH /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/

Adieu, with her blue tears on glummer face,
/ a DIEU / with her / BLUE TEARS / on GLUM / mer FACE /
/iamb/pyrrhic/spondee(double iamb)/iamb/iamb/
pyrrich + spondee = double iamb

and soon the dreamy world began to blanch.
/ and SOON / the DREA / my WORLD / be GAN / to BLANCH /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/

For her who drives away the morning's cold
/ for HER / WHO DRIVES / a WAY / the MORN / ing's COLD /
/iamb/spondee/iamb/iamb/iamb/
spondee is one of the four standard iamb substitutions

and warms her heart on every chilly night?
/ and WARMS / her HEART / on EVE / ry CHILL / y NIGHT /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/

To where a cozy room can she behold
/to WHERE / a CO / zy ROOM / CAN SHE / be HOLD /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/spondee/iamb/

and who will take her home from sorry plight?
/ and WHO / WILL TAKE / her HOME / from SOR / ry PLIGHT /
/iamb/spondee/iamb/iamb/iamb/

Without a winter rivers run in flood
/ with OUT / a WIN / ter RIV / ers RUN / in FLOOD /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/

The seasons' circle that brings up a year
/ the SEA /sons CIR / cle that/ BRINGS UP / a YEAR /
/iamb/iamb/pyrrhic/spondee(double iamb)/iamb/

Revive, when spring lets all branches bud
/ re VIVE / when NEXT / SPRING LETS / ALL BRANCH / es BUT /
/iamb/iamb/spondee/spondee/iamb/

The bloom will truly always have her dear
/ the BLOOM / will TRU / ly AL /ways HAVE / her DEAR /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/

Is yet the former branch her beloved one
/ is YET / the FOR / mer BRANCH / her be / LOVE ONE /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/pyrrhic/spondee (double iamb)/

and still she calls the branch her only hon?
/ and STILL / she CALLS/ the BRANCH / her ON / ly HON /
/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/iamb/
--by calmsea--
复习一下这些terms:

1) [ - + ] iamb - n. / iambic - adj. -- 抑扬格，长短格一个对称的音步，由一个重读的音节紧跟在一个不重读的音节后面，或一个长的音节跟在一个短的音节后面组成，即前轻后重，如 delay

2) [ + - ] trochee - n. / trochaic - adj. or invert -- 扬抑格音步两个音节的音步，其中第一个音节重读，第二个音节不重读，如在单词 season中，或第一个音节是长的，第二个音节是短的

3) [ - - ] pyrrhic - n. adj. -- 抑抑格，二短音步一种有节奏的步伐，有两个短或无重音的音节 如 在句子中的 for a ( I come for a ride.)

4) [+ +] spondee - n. / spondaic - adj. (double iamb) -- 扬扬格, 有两个长音节或重音节的韵脚

5) [ - - +] anapest - n. / anapestic - adj. (divided) -- 抑抑扬格，由两短一长的三音节组成的音步，如单词 seventeen

6) [+ - - ] dactylus – n. -- 扬抑抑格, 长短短格三音节音步一种三音节音步，在一个重读音节和两个非重读音节组成的音步，如：jealousy

7）[+ - +] amphimacer - n. -- 扬抑扬格，长短长三音节音步一种三音节音步，在两个重读音节或长音节之间有一个非重读音节或短音节，如 Peter Pan

8) [+ - - +] choriambi – n. -- 扬抑抑扬格


---by Rhapsodia---

A sword you are, out of sheath
Upright I am and will never droop

Sharp is your soul, sky's teeth
Firm is my spirit of deity's troop

A steed you are galloping onto sky
I am a knight from heaven's high

A space-ship you are launching to fly
Mountains are small in my bird's-eye

Years plot to erode you by dearth
Prop my parachute against its swoop

And you will never grovel on earth
With you neither will my body stoop

CalmSea - 2006-10-30

Clerihews have just a few simple rules:
1. They are four lines long.
2. The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
3. The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
4. A clerihew should be funny.




Rhapsody


With grace comes sister Rhapsody,

She never plays music but prosody.

If she strings violin like a musician,
Bless me! My ears must be broken.

--by Calmsea 2006-10-27 13:57:30



The VOE owner is CalmSea

Always as busy as a Bee

Someone say his knowledge like a reservoir

Often show up in chatroom blah blah blah

--by Newbird 2006-10-27 14:03:44




There is one friend called Moonriver

Looks to me she is an English teacher

Her voice in Chatroom seems low

But she devote her work on BBS like a water buffalo

--by Newbird 2006-10-27 14:10:38



Quack-quack upstairs a Newbird
Haw-haw with me he just bantered
As in VOE he starts blah-blah
Soon his snore dances on cha-cha

--by Calmsea 2006-10-27 14:32:24



The boss of VOE is Camlsea

A sea that is dreamy, mighty and sometimes stormy

He would talk and talk

Until his speech faints the clock

--by moonriver2006-10-27 19:04:41



Clerihew - Moonriver

A mermaid named moonriver
Who is so graceful and tender
With a pen in sea of poetry as a sail
So never does she swim with her tail

--by calmsea 2006-10-27 19:38:22



One hell of a real man called Calmsea

Never one time hears him free

If you stay up chatroom wait and see

Once he picks up the mic never flee
--by laverdercc 2006-10-27 21:20:22



The flash turns to a dear named Moonriver

Wintry season never infected fever

Should you need any kind of giver

She would be the best belover

--by Lavendercc2006-10-27 21:24:42



Here came a new bird

With beautiful feathers that glittered

And his head keeps rocking to music

Rendering calmsea crick

--by moonriver2006-10-31 17:22:13



Outshining other flowers in the garden is lavendercc

Her charm burned the bee

She dances hither and thither

Alas!She falls into the calm sea and becomes a drinker
--by moonriver 2006-10-31 18:20:05




The digger in VOE is our cool

Digging here and there on the stool

She would dig and dig

Should she dig calmsea's wig!
--by moonriver2006-10-31 18:32:54




NewBird

Squat on a tree is a newbird

Dumb as it with no chirp

Keeping an eye at the calmsea

Cos the water cages a beautiful chickadee
--by Phapsodia 2006-11-1 11:35:11




Many cuties fell in the Calm-sea,

Ripples over ripples were to see.

Not only is He so dear,

But also he knows "Bier".

--by passerby2006 2006-11-1 22:22:29



美人成排跳进海

层层波澜入眼来

不仅其人真可爱

尚且难得识棺材

--by calmsea



众女陷静海,

掀起涟漪无限.

惹如此爱怜,

知否，知否,

也在棺木那边.
--by passerby2006




Here flies passerby2006

On the back of a cocky phoenix

With a strict ferula in his hand

So scary,my poor poem has to strand
--by moonriver2006-11-1 22:41:27



Many times a by-passer

Emerged like a blockbuster

Dropped his bomb before your eyes

Next second he calls for peace in bow tie
--by phapsodia 2006-11-2 9:02:02


Under cover a passerby
In the night a lullaby
What a talent from womb
But a ghost from tomb

飘忽无踪一路人
夜半踏歌也无痕
天生奇才惹红尘
无奈出墓是幽魂
--by calmsea 2006-11-3 23:24:22



lingering in the graveyard a passerby
turning his ears deaf to R.I.P. nearby
Eerie words out from his red tongue
Calmsea lost sleep and ease in his hunt

幽魂墓地闲游荡
安息劝慰放耳旁
利齿红舌作文章
坛主终日梦难尝
--by phapsodia 2006-11-7 6:32:02