The Ecphorizer
Technoverse |
Issue #23 (July 1983)
There is no force, however great,
Can stretch a cord, however fine,
Into a horizontal line
Which is accurately straight.
Can stretch a cord, however fine,
Into a horizontal line
Which is accurately straight.
A classic case of unintentional "poetic prose" can be found in Whewell's Mechanics, a nineteenth-century technological work. Rendered as a quatrain, the sentence reads:
There is no force, however great,
Can stretch a cord, however fine,
Into a horizontal line
Which is accurately straight.
Can stretch a cord, however fine,
Into a horizontal line
Which is accurately straight.