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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5030018" data-attributes="member: 6957"><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/" target="_blank">The Kalevala</a> - Finnish mythology was set to Teutonic meter, easy to remember, and sounds good spoken aloud.Wainiemonen, old and truthful,Did not learn the words of magic,In Tuoni's gloomy kingdom,In the kingdom of Manalla,Sat he then and long debated, Well considered, long reflected,Where to find the magic sayings....My spelling may be quite a bit off, and some of the words may be wrong, but I remember quite a bit of the Kalevala, thirty years and more since reading it.... (I may go back and check later, but that sort of misses the point.)Hiawatha was also set to Teutonic rhythm, as was Lewis Carrol's response - Hiawatha's Photographing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp; (Even the intro used that meter, used that meter in the mocking....) [In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy. Any fairly practised writer, with the slightest ear for rhythm, could compose, for hours together, in the easy running metre of 'The Song of Hiawatha.' Having, then, distinctly stated that I challenge no attention in the following little poem to its merely verbal jingle, I must beg the candid reader to confine his criticism to its treatment of the subject.]The Auld Grump, easy to do ex tempor as well.*EDIT* Added, then fixed, the link</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 5030018, member: 6957"] [url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/]The Kalevala[/url] - Finnish mythology was set to Teutonic meter, easy to remember, and sounds good spoken aloud. Wainiemonen, old and truthful, Did not learn the words of magic, In Tuoni's gloomy kingdom, In the kingdom of Manalla, Sat he then and long debated, Well considered, long reflected, Where to find the magic sayings.... My spelling may be quite a bit off, and some of the words may be wrong, but I remember quite a bit of the Kalevala, thirty years and more since reading it.... (I may go back and check later, but that sort of misses the point.) Hiawatha was also set to Teutonic rhythm, as was Lewis Carrol's response - Hiawatha's Photographing. :p (Even the intro used that meter, used that meter in the mocking....) [In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy. Any fairly practised writer, with the slightest ear for rhythm, could compose, for hours together, in the easy running metre of 'The Song of Hiawatha.' Having, then, distinctly stated that I challenge no attention in the following little poem to its merely verbal jingle, I must beg the candid reader to confine his criticism to its treatment of the subject.] The Auld Grump, easy to do ex tempor as well. *EDIT* Added, then fixed, the link [/QUOTE]

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