Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V5 #247 -Reply

[Brian Cady <cadyb@home.com>]

Eric Tischler wrote in re: Dickinson

> I wonder, does it take a scholar to have an opinion? I think the rhyme
> scheme in your poem (the worm/snake/string one) is overbearing; the
> easy, "Hickory Dickory Dock" rhythm threatens to subvert the meaning of
> the words and, in some cases, seems to weaken the poem for the sake
> of meeting the rhyme.

I forget what humorist wrote it, but he said that Emily Dickinson's
poetry was ruined for him when somebody pointed out that all her poems
could be sung to "The Yellow Rose Of Texas."

		-Brian in Atlanta