The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

Herbie: Four lines?

Archie: Four lines? Yes, sir. (He gets four washing lines from a drawer.) There you are.

Herbie: No, four lines.

Archie: Four lines, That’s four lines! Four washing lines!

Herbie: No, four lines.

Archie: Oh, four electric lines. We call them cables in the trade (He gets some electric cable from the back of the shop.) Anything else?

Herbie: No, four lines.

Archie: What? Oh, four lions? Growl, growl, bite, bite?

Herbie: No, four poetry lines.

Archie: Oh, poetry lines? We call that a quatrain in the trade. Or could be a Ruba'i. Depends on your preference, y'see. Sorry, sir, we're more of a sonnet company. We have some villanelles and sestinas, and haiku's have become more popular, but there's no demand for quatrains, y'see.

Herbie: (Looks at his list.) Got any rhymes?

Archie: Crimes? 'Ere, what you sayin'?

Herbie: No, not crimes, Rhymes.

Archie: Oh. That's all right then. What sort of rhymes?

Herbie: What sort you got?

Archie: Well, we got masculine, feminine, dactylic, syllabic, imperfect, semirhyme, oblique, assonance, consonance, half rhyme, alliteration, internal, tail, and holorhyme. What d'you want it for?

HerbieL An ode.

Archie: You want more than a quatrain for an ode. Good job you came to me.

Herbie: No, an owed.

Archie: An owed what? You paying off a debt or something?

Herbie: No, Anne 'oad. Anne Hoad. Me girlfriend.

Archie: Oh, so it's a love poem you're writing.

Herbie: (Blushing) Well, yeah.

Archie: What does she like?

Herbie: Doggerel..

Archie: Here, there's no need for that. We only do proper poems here.

Herbie: Sometimes she likes a Limerick, but I thought I'd do something special for her.

Archie: Double dactyl?

Herbie: Do you think she'd like that?

Archie: Well, it makes MY missus laugh. Anyway. One rhyming dictionary. Anything else?

Herbie: Nah, That's it for now.

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