To the man in the street
Who I'm sorry to say
Is a keen observer of life,
The word intellectual
Suggests straight away
A man who's untrue to his wife.
WHAuden (c.1940?), misquoted from memory
On 27/10/07 1:03 AM, "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for the responses on "The Four Seasons." It's been one of my
> better received poems. Maybe I should write more bad ones.
>
> It includes a small sort of joke, in that it's sometimes said that
> "orange" and "purple" are the two English words which have no rhymes.
> No doubt I'm not the first to disprove this. But the master of this
> sort of thing was Byron, whose ingenious rhymes in Don Juan culminate,
> I think, by his at one point rhyming "intellectual" with "hen-pecked,
> you all ...".
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