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Author: * Senex Caecilius -
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Date: Dec 17, 2005 - 00:51
The than-bauk is a three-line "climbing-rhyme" poem of Burmese origin. Conventionally it is a wittty saying or epigram containing four syllables per line. The rhyme is on the 4th syllable of the first line, the 3rd syllable of the second line, and the 2nd syllable of the third line. Several such verses have been cobbled together in this poem.
A Saturnalian Than-Bauk
Their cries of Io!
Clearly show that
Slaves know the date!
At Saturn's feast,
Slaves have ceased, now
At least, to serve.
The day will end,
Rules unbend, then
Rescind their play.
But never fear,
Come next year, it'll
Appear once more.
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