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WE RUN THE RAILS -- Rondeau

We run the rails in silver trainsover mountains; across the plainsthe charging wheels, the crying hornsfrom out of night and on through dawnstrong, quiet men, yet few remainlong lines of freight,...

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Don't believe you need the refrain on the first stanza there, Gaer. Your "b" rhyme is tricky with my accent, but I know UK pronunciation of "dawn" tends to rhyme with "born".Anyway, overall, a very...

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Beth:Thanks for the tip on the refrain. It's been taken out of the first stanza.Actually that accent which makes born and dawn rhyme isn't British, but Swamp Yankee. Not an Englander, but a New...

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Ah well .... if you ask the many Brits around here ... they'll be happy to tell you they pronounce it quite similarly. I've been schooled on it many times. One would suspect that some of that New...

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Hello Gaer, You've done well with the Rondeau. It is a challenge to come up with so many end rhymes and you've handled that smooth and unintrusively. I also enjoyed your theme. It is fresh from the...

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I'll have to look at that punctuation. I'm by custom very sparse with it. This, since no lines are enjambed and end in caesuras, I felt didn't need end punctuation.Thanks for considering.Gaer

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A rollicking good read, Gaer! Great sense of motion in this one, really pulls the piece along.I'm one of those Brits who gets pulled up regularly for rhyming Dawn and Born...even though, in most of...

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Paul:Swamp Yankees can rhyme those two words. My ancestors were from Devon -- but my accentual speech comes from my birth in Maine and growing years in Massachusetts. A Maine accent is perhaps the...

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I'm origianlly a London boy, and have lived in west London, but also on the South Coast, in Wales, and in the Midlands...but I am currently living near Oxford, in a small village out in the country......

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Hmm --Well-represented Devonian. I wish we knew where he was from. We only know that he was from Devon. His name was Hugh Roe and it's estimated that he was in Massachusetts around 1642. Haven't been...

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