The 1800s poem written to prove rhyming is easy
An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...
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Who was the audience for the rhyming Purim play?
Itsik Manger (1901-1969) pioneered the fully modern, rhyming Purim shpil; his Yiddish Megile first appeared in Warsaw in 1936. After “extensive research,” he “discovered” a love triangle so spicy that ...