My name is fan
And wen its nite
Wen normal fowk
ar sleeping tite
Wen showrunners
Hav ben a dic
I do the thing.
I rite the fic.My name fanarts
And wen its nite
Wen tumblr fowk
shitpost and fite
I drink de wine
i read the fic
I do the thing.
I art the dic.
Tag: i lik the bred
“i lik the bred”
so it would seem
has now become
iambic meme
use two per line
in sets of four
pause on the third–
iamb some more.
my name is Bred
and in my slepe
where mortal eys
can take no pepe,
i dreme my plotte-
not long from now
i’ll take my chancei’ll lik the cow.
so id like to tell you something, like, in the context of cryptid sightings
specifically, id like to tell you some things about cattle
- they dont look like they move fast, but, in fact, they do. they move very fast, and theyre capable of doing so quietly
- if a cow is black and has white spots, or if it is white and has black spots, both the white and black bits come together in the approximate shape of a cow
- but in the dark, you cant see the black parts, and the white parts do NOT, form the approximate shape of a cow
what im saying is that i have at certain times been walking in the fields on a night with low visibility and i have, at certain times, seen an indistinct white shape zoom past me, and i am at least 95% sure it was a cow. and that if you see a white shape zoom past you in a field at night, it is also probably at least 95% of a cow
my name is cow
and wen its nite
and yu in fere
a cryptid site
be not afraide –
in mothmans sted
its only mein serch of bred
my name is dog
and wen i see
a littel snek
rite next tu me,
altho he sez
“on me dont tred”
i walk rite up
and lik his hedHey @unicornmagic, I think I found you some fanart for the snekverse.
i am a snek
both nice & gud
and byte my Frend
i nevr would
a tender hart
i bare insted
of fangs for him
who likt my hed ♡
i lik the clif
my name is Goat,
and wen its day,
wen all the men
are far away,
i clyme into
the hevens valt –
i crayve that rock.i lik the salt.
My name is Calfe
& Im too young
to know yet what do
with my Toung!So till my Mom say
“Dont Do That!”
Ill stick it out
And lik this cat.My little Calfe,
Im proud of yu–
yur living like
the Big Cows do.
Yur doing just
what Mom have said–
for yu lik cat,
and catlik bred.
Bad meme execution. 0/5 stars.
These poems are supposed to be imitative of 17th/18th century middle English poetry (pre-dating dictionaries and formalized spelling conventions) not early 2000s chatspeak, not babytalk.
These poems are also supposed to be in iambic diameter, giving them a pleasing songlike rhythm. The above has inconsistent syllabic structure from line to line.
These attributes are clearly illustrated in the prime:
So tired of people on this website and their flagrant disregard for syllabic structure.
No respect for the craft.
1. first of all, how dare you. i would never, N E V E R, put forth a cow poem with inconsistent syllabic structure. these may not be my finest work, but the iambic dimeter is IMPECCABLE. check my scansion again and come back to me. I guess “know what do yet” is not ideal, but it falls within the constraints of the form. i’m genuinely appalled by this. i have SEEN inconsistent scansion in this meme, i do NOT approve of it and i have NOT done it. how dare you. HOW DAR EYOU!!!
Secondly: it is not absurd to suppose that the linguistic constraints of a Cow Poem would depend on the figure to whom Cow speaks. In the original (and perfect) “i lik the bred,” the narrative cow, like a Chaucerian non-characterized narrator, directs her speech to an imagined and unspecific listener; not to “the men,” who are characters within the poem, but to some more general audience. (See the Canterbury Tales prologue for an example of this voice in action.)
Later, poem_for_your_sprog has Cow address contemporaries like “dog.” You will notice that the voice of Cow varies slightly, in speaking to Dog, from her voice in the original “I lik the bred.” WHY, then, can we not extrapolate that Calfe – who is, after all, a narrator of limited capacity, being only a Baby Cow with a Baby Cow’s simplicity – would have its own variant voice? And why, too, would Cow not speak differently to her own Calfe than she does to an animal peer, or to reverent imaginary auditors? These are experiments within an emerging form – flawed experiments, certainly, but not mistakes ipso facto. Again: HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!
my name is Cow,
and as yu see,
its worth yor tiyme
to studye me.
but if yu dont
like what yu red,take 2 deep breths
and lik the bred.
ok, this was the point where this meme started being truly great to me