редкие рифмы (англ.)

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I have tried a hundred times, I guess,
To find a rhyme for month;
I have failed a hundred times, I know,
But succeeded the hundred and one-th.

А эту я помню из какого-то альманаха, который читал много лет назад:

To find a rhyme for 'silver',
or any 'rhymeless' rhyme,
Requires only will, ver-
bosity and time.

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[utnapishti.livejournal.com]

Примечание к этому стишку (про month) в книге "Oddities and Curiosities":

But this is hardly fair. The rhyme is good, but the English is bad. Christina Rossetti has done better in the admirable book of nursery rhymes which she has published under the title of "Sing-Song":

How many weeks in a month?
Four, as swift moon runn'th.

[avva.livejournal.com]

Хорошо! :)