Doily at the nose

[Roy Hobbs]

Your paronomasia, as your parataxis,
shall be for three days concealed--
then I shall announce it to the world--
one, a matter of Hemingway (parataxis)
verses Henry James (hypotaxis), the
other, paronomasia, a trope or rhetorical
scheme.

Thanks for your reply, dear sir.
Two old-timers as we are can only
'sit and bray like grandsires cut
in alabaster'( from Shakespeare, but
I don't remember where),

rh