Comments on: Rumble http://blogjam.name/?p=7528 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:17:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Maidment http://blogjam.name/?p=7528&cpage=1#comment-1819 John Maidment Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:56:46 +0000 http://blogjam.name/?p=7528#comment-1819 Martin,

I have a variant too where the bishop is replaced by the duchess.

Beatrice,

/ɪt wəz ˈdʒʌst əz aɪ ˈfɪəd ɪt əb ˈbiː/ seems fine to me, but there are other possibilities.

]]> By: Beatrice Portinari http://blogjam.name/?p=7528&cpage=1#comment-1818 Beatrice Portinari Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:21:13 +0000 http://blogjam.name/?p=7528#comment-1818 Sorry to spoil the fun, gentlemen, but …
Would it be all right if the second line of the poem was spoken (in isolation) as “It was just as I FEARED it’d be” -nucleus on “feared” and a reduced “would” in the tail? Or could/should this “would” keep a full vowel and be lightly stressed?

]]> By: Martin Ball http://blogjam.name/?p=7528&cpage=1#comment-1817 Martin Ball Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:35:47 +0000 http://blogjam.name/?p=7528#comment-1817 Variant from my mother:

I sat next the bishop at tea.
It was just as I feared it would be.
His rumblings internal
Were simply infernal
And everyone thought it was me!

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