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So funny and good. Thank you Terry.

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Terry, this is absolutely awesome - although I had to take a second and third look at the title of this post, assuming you'd had a fight with your keyboard in an effort to type 'apostrophe'.

As is my typical practice during my reading of your posts I had some Googling to do - there are so many ways out there to structure a poem, aren't there? Epistrophe - a word I've come across for the very first time in your post - is a nicely neat and tidy pattern - it's nice to follow the same breadcrumb all the way to the end of the trail. Learned a lot - as usual. Thank you so much!

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A first for me too.

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😁

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Nicely done, and taught me a new term.

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Thanks, Stephanie 😁 Your next challenge is to bring it into everyday conversation. Chortle!

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Love it. Now I know what an epistrophe is.

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😁

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Jan 21Liked by Terry Freedman

Excellent and very clever, Terry. It rolls and rhymes very nicely, Terry.

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Thank you, squire 😁

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Love it, love it, love it. Thanks Mr Terry.

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Thanks, Beth 😁

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Jan 21Liked by Terry Freedman

Very well done, Terry. Next version Anaphora?

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Only learned this term recently thanks to Nina Schuyler! I second - Anaphora next :)

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Thanks, Stephanie. Working on it! 😁

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Jan 21Liked by Terry Freedman

I had to Google this to understand the terms, but now I feel educated :)

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Excellent! Consider yourself Vygotsky-fied Chortle!

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That WAS going to be either my next one or one very soon! Well spotted, Sir!

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Jan 21Liked by Terry Freedman

This is so darned clever, Terry. You are quite the poet. Are these called couplets, or what? I know little about rhyme and meter...

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Thanks, Sharron. Yes, they are rhyming couplets, but what makes the style special isn't that. Chortle.

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Hmmmm...?

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I love this one! You did a great job of summarizing the whole episode with simplicity. Well done.

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Thanks, Donna. I'm a simple sort of bloke. 😁

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Jan 21Liked by Terry Freedman

I read your version

Without aversion

Enjoyed it instead

All through my head

What a great writer!

I said to myself

My day much brighter

Because of thyself (aka Terry)

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WOW, Mary!!! 🙌

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Haha! Thanks, Mary, and well done. 😁

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Jan 21Liked by Terry Freedman

😁 Thanks, Terry, it was SO much fun!

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😁

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Well done Mary!!

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Jan 21Liked by Terry Freedman

Thanks, Donna! It was super fun!

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👏

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This is also hilarious. Impressive!

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Thank you, Celine. 😁

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