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Occasional Poetry - 13. Coursework Couplets

em>Dear teachers: here is my scratchwork. You can like the solution or not, as you wish. I made each and every mistake, and then some.
Written in response to Poetry Prompt #5, Couplets.

Couplet Coursework

 

Now begin semester's grinding tussle;

now the homework, now the classroom bustle.

Calculus, Equations differential

make you think your life is penitential.

Trig analysis is quite sadistic;

while you take Theology patristic.

Don't despair, your mind expands like taffy

as you solve MacLaurin series daffy.

Number theory, methods most Socratic

lead you to conclusions most ecstatic.

em>For a friend, as he starts his latest semester's work.
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Parker Owens
On 01/21/2016 04:35 AM, Headstall said:

I loved the humor in this, Parker, and the rhyming is terrific. It takes me back to that dread of school but also the reward of it... very well done, sir! Cheers... Gary....

Thanks for seeing the humor and for checking out the rhymes, I have a thing for rhyming technical terms. Why shouldn't engineers get lyrical from time to time? Thanks for your review, Gary.

Parker Owens
On 01/21/2016 09:10 AM, Mikiesboy said:

Super Parker .. worked really well and I kinda understood 3/4 of it!! What a nice thing to for Drew!!

tim

I am so glad you liked it, and all that technical mambo jumbo didn't put you off. As I said to Gary, I kind of like the challenge of rhyming technical terms. That is the fun part. Thanks for the encouragement and review.

AC Benus

I had to look up Patristic Theology; hmmmmm…? Don't know about that one (Drew, lol).

 

I think this poem shows how couplets are good for presenting a topic and its associated emotions in a humorous way. I love all the technical terms you used as rhymes here, for (at lest for me) they have a way of intimating the reading, and thereby paint the mental state of the student contemplating getting back to the grindstone ;)

 

Well done!

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Parker Owens
On 01/29/2016 06:42 AM, AC Benus said:

I had to look up Patristic Theology; hmmmmm…? Don't know about that one (Drew, lol).

 

I think this poem shows how couplets are good for presenting a topic and its associated emotions in a humorous way. I love all the technical terms you used as rhymes here, for (at lest for me) they have a way of intimating the reading, and thereby paint the mental state of the student contemplating getting back to the grindstone ;)

 

Well done!

I just couldn't help playing with technical terms; they're often far too serious for themselves. As parts of their couplets, they seemed like far more playful creatures, as if Wagner had gone to see Gilbert and Sullivan.

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