Verse and worse was Re: Eighth Grade etc.

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> So, Carol, what do you make of:
> 
> "The Lord of the Rings"
> Is one of those things,
> If you like it, you do.
> If you don't then you "Boo".
> 
> (J R R Tolkein)
>
Carol responds:

If Tolkien wrote this,
I'm a po'tess. (That's "poetess" with an apostrophe to indicate an
omitted e.)

But for the sake of the thread, let me examine the specimen. Rhyme
scheme AA BB. Meter irregular. The first and second lines consist of
an iamb followed by an anapest. The third and fourth lines are perfect
anapestic dimeter (If you like'/it you do', etc.). The genre is
essentially that of the Hogwarts school song, doggerel. <winks at Geoff>

Carol, who would never boo for "Lord of the Rings" but is not overfond
of Mr. Bilbo's poetry