[Fictionary] fleer results!

[eLLioTT morEton]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:

> Jean-Joseph: I'm guessing that at least one of the learned people here
> will recognize my rip-off of the actual British political couplet from
> long ago:
>  The Rat, The Cat, and Lovell the Dog
>  Rule all England under the Hog.

News to me!  It was pretty clever, and the original author was executed 
for it, too:

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-cat-the-rat-and-lovell-the-dog-rule-all-england-under-the-hog

> Jim: 1 point (would have been two if the scansion were more consistent
> between lines 2 and 4)

What's the matter with the scansion?  There's a grace note at the start of 
Line 2 that isn't there in Line 4, but that's the only difference:

2:  (should) he  re SOLVE u  pon a  MI nis try ca  REER
4:           his um BRE   la his ma LA ca  or  his FLEER

Regards,
em