Poll: Poetry is a)for losers b)fun c)dorky yet fun d)other.

[cygna_hime]

I realized I hadn't actually used the poll function yet, and in reading for Lit, I ran across a question that bothers me: in the last two lines of the first quatrain of William Blake's poem 'The Tyger', how do you make them rhyme?

Poll A Question of Poetic Pronounciation: "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright/in the forests of the night"

Comments

[auronlu]

Scottish and several old British accents say "ee" for "eye", so I've always assumed that's it. But I've certainly puzzled about this before!

[cygna_hime]

Ha! It's not just me! Hah! *feels vindicated in confusion*

[aerinth]

maybe the british accent changes try to an ee sound..... says the unworldly one.

And your poll is flawed statistics!!