02-06-2011, 06:54 AM
With a few tweaks here and there, this could be almost perfect. It's certainly a charming ditty.
(02-05-2011, 11:33 PM)MadameTigress Wrote: I feel as small as a speck of tea
As though you cannot see "As though" seems an odd choice of words. How about something like "one so small you cannot see"?
I feel as tall as a summer day Would "long" make a little more sense than "tall"?
The ones that wash the rain away This is a lovely couplet, like something from an old folk song.
I feel as happy as a clown
They just like to lounge around Would brackets on either side of this line help, to show that it's parenthesis?
I feel as sad as man, Seeing as there's no other punctuation, is this comma needed?
That finds out he cannot stand
Sometimes my emotions run on high
So I can forget when another emotion dies Again, lovely and sweet, like an old folk song. I can imagine the pros warbling this to the tune of a plywood guitar
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe


