The Poetic Garden Centre The villanelles are looking quite, quite splendid; that anapæst is coming on a treat. I wonder just how many staff have tended the sonnets with their dainty little feet? Oh look! Is that a Humorous sestina climbing up that stanza over there? And what is this? I’m sure it’s Terza rima yes: right first time - its rhyme scheme’s rather spare. Now, what’s for lunch? I think I'll have a salad that looks rather nice: Home made pantoum (never heard of it). I’ll take the ballad. We’ll sit beneath the haiku in full bloom. A glass of ode? A bottle of cæsura? Enjambement is always rather flat; I’d rather have a sip of something purer, but I’ll settle for a than-bauk, come to that. Such a lot of interesting flowers a clerihew? Now that is rather rare. (I can carry on like this for hours and hours, but you’ve clearly had enough. I’ll stop right there). Darrell Barnes The grumpy Garden Centre shopper I was hoping that I’d find some anaphora to help my patch of pleonasm along but all they have in stock is common zeugma and some weedy looking polysyndeton.
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