Wikipedia.
fig 1: King John.
Higgledy-piggledy
young Philip Faulconbridge,
son of his father he
wasn't at all—
learning his getting was
extracurricular
gave Phil a reason at
last to stand tall.
fig 2: Doctor Faustus.
Higgledy-piggledy
Faustus of Wittenberg
autodidactically
summoned from Hell
one whom the adjective
Mephistophelian
fit like a glove (i.e.
really quite well).
fig 3: Le petit prince.
Higgledy-piggledy
A. Saint-Exupéry,
flyer of planes and a
writer of books,
once drew a picture whose
idiosyncrasies
made it look hat-like and
earned him odd looks.
fig 4: Ninety-Five Theses
Higgledy-piggledy
Martin of Wittenberg
wrote out some theses and
stuck them on high:
reading this treatise most
multisyllabical,
many good Germans bid
Rome a good-bye.
26 January 2017
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Higgeldy piggeldy
ReplyDeleteHamlet of Wittenberg
acted too antic
and Oedipally sighed
somehow or other most
anticlimacticly
killed poor Polonius,
then they all died.
Higgledy-piggledy,
DeleteGertrude at Elsinore
(husband's a murderer,
so is her son)
drinks up her poison quite
dipsomaniacally:
being a queen really
wasn't much fun.
Higgeldy-piggeldy
DeleteFrankenstein -- Wittenburg,
(Clearly the place where adventures begin)
Learned from Agrippa
homunculus-forming
then cast off his monster,
for being no kin.
I'm never going to hear mention of anyone being at Wittenberg naturally again!
DeleteIt does scan very usefully, doesn't it!
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