Skip to main content Help Control Panel

Shakespeare's Monkeys

Infinite Monkeys. Infinite Typewriters.

More in reincarnation

reincarnation

<< Previous Next >>

I have no problems with inversions since these are not horribly awkward ones (and I'm backward anyway), but you have to fix the meter in L5 to something like "The ragamuffin heroes spew their rants".  Some of the other lines are a bit on the forced side but I can get around that by shifting stresses, since they're fairly arbitrary and dialect-driven I suspect (L7 especially, I have to say "conCRETE" which is arse about for me).  In L-can't be bothered counting that far I scan as "now ON the THREshold OF new MAJesty" -- now, that's iambic and there's no worries technically but you have strong stresses on two completely useless words (on and of), which is a waste of emphasis, so I'd suggest a rethink on that one.

I do like the juxtaposition of the formal language with bum piss.  Nice.  Would like to see "idiots and philistines", just to drive it home.

by Leanne on June 5 2008