• Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    Ode to Percy Bysshe Shelley

    I read Ozymandias, it was very long

    longer than the long long song in hop on pop

    I can’t remember what it was about,

    it was a long time ago and I have forgotten

    you were totes awesome in the OG Frankenstein movie

    Byron stole the stage, he always does

    so much BD energy he limps

    but just like Mozart you shagged the little sister too,

    Byron never did that

    I stole your pome yesterday, to a Skylark

    and put in some modern argot, it turned out ok 🙂

    I never do know how to pronounce your name

    is it Per-cee or Per-se

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      13 days ago

      If you think Ozymandias is long (14 lines - it’s a sonnet), then don’t attempt The Bride of Abydos (1204 lines - 339 of which is a single speech).

      I’ve always pronounced Percy as rhyming with mercy. Don’t know of any major variants. I did have a teacher once with the surname Persse, but this was pronounced “purse”, at least to his face.