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@PeterShor a fast runner "shod with smooth steel" brings to mind Oscar Pistorius, but I guess the poem predates him. Anyway his legs are carbon fiber rather than steel.
 
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07:17
Rofl. I got an email inviting me to join the editorial board of the Journal of Classical Literature.
Spam, obviously, but usually such spam emails I get are at least from mathematical or scientific journals. This one is just out of nowhere, unless they've stalked me enough to know that I mod Literature SE under the pseudonym of Rand al'Thor.
 
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08:58
@Randal'Thor Surely, al-Khwārizmī's The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing is classical literature by now?
 
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Q: Can you paraphrase the following stanza for me?

FareehaArt though a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell. Art though a sinner? Sins may be forgiven Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell Each night a star guide thy feet to heaven. I am not able to paraphrase this stanza without altering meaning.

 
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Q: What is the significance of the drawings in the first few pages of "Drops of Melodies"?

EJoshuaS - Stand with UkraineDrops of Melodies by Hemurah Tohti has the following images in the first couple pages of the Kindle edition: However, I don't see any attribution for these images and don't exactly understand their significance in terms of the overall work. Can someone explain the source and purpose of those?

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Q: Why are children described as "folly free" in the poem "Mothers Heart"?

EJoshuaS - Stand with UkraineThe poem Mothers Heart (in Drops of Melodies by Hemurah Tohti) contains the following lines: She always thinks of her children Children play, folly free Why are children described as "folly free"?

 
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questions for ze mods. Skooba reviewed this non-answer and recommended deletion; I flagged it. Which is preferable? Going through the review process or flagging? I'm not sure I know what happens in either case.
Like, if someone flags something, I imagine one or more mods takes a look at the flag. But what happens when an answer ends up in the review queue (for first/late answers) and someone says "delete this"? Does that also end up in the mods' list of things to look at? Or does it have to wait for four other non-mods/a single mod to vote on it before it gets closed?
 
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Q: Is Chain Rhyme an ambiguous term? Or are Chain Rhyme and Chain Verse different things?

MaladyWikipedia's oldest, 2004, article on Chain Rhyme defines it: Chain rhyme is the linking together of stanzas by carrying a rhyme over from one stanza to the next. While older works, talking of "CHAIN VERSE", circa 1882, describe that as: This ingenious style of versification, where the last wor...


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