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There are many types of palindromes, though I haven’t seen one that reads forward and backward letter by letter while rhyming, nor one set to note-palindromic music.
I’ve heard symmetric music (the last half being the same as the first backwards) that sounded satisfactory, and believable palindrome
lyrics can be fashioned or found.
A word by word palindrome like the one below set to symmetric music might make a pleasantly balanced tune, though keeping the listener forever wondering if it was the forward or backward version that was sung:
Love is This and This is Love
Darling, my love
Is great, so great;
Recalling Heaven’s calm above.
Fate is sweet this--
All after Fall!
Fall? After all,
This, sweet, is fate--
Above calm Heaven’s recalling.
Great, so great is
Love, my darling!
(J.A. Lindon?)
I palendrome I
http://www.lyricsfr...-giants/136264.html
Has a bit of palindrome in it (starting with "son I am able"), though I don't thing the tune is palindromic. [Worldgineer, Apr 25 2005]
The Inverted Crab Canon (scroll to bottom of page)
http://www-personal...r/counterpoint.html
This is music which reads the same when you turn the page upside down - very clever. [hippo, Apr 25 2005]
Lyrics to Weird Al's "Bob"
http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/bob.html
[krelnik, Apr 25 2005]
Michael Palin
http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Michael_Palin
[Ian Tindale, Apr 25 2005]
[link]
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"I, man, am regal - a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
--
Weird Al Yankovic |
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I'm really tempted to bake this. |
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Just reading this over, I feel oddly baked as it is. |
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So if I held it upside down in front of a mirror, and sang it to the tune of "Oh My Darling", everything would be ok? (+ For the description alone.) |
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Hippo, that's my favorite song on Weird Al's most recent album. |
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I have a ginger cat called
Dellactacregnig Aevahi. |
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Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog. |
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Linked inverted canon: Why does it seem that notes 3 and 4 on the upper treble clef don't match the inverted music (ditto for notes 6 and 7 on the lower clef)? |
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My choir actually performed a piece written for us a few years ago. It was titled simply "Palindrome", and it was a word-for-word palindromic poem set to a palindromic melody. It was pretty funny, actually, if a little dissonant, and exaordinarily difficult to sing. |
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Pointless tasks, no big deal though
An achievement personal, tackling these
Limitations at every corner
Initiate intricate chains of
Nuanced suppositons that
Demand double duty from each line
Reverse verse with a twist!
Oh the trials of generating
Meter and sense
Exploring
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Symmetry through acrostic palindromy
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Exploring
Meter and sense
Oh the trials of generating
Reverse verse with a twist!
Demand double duty from each line
Nuanced suppositons that
Initiate intricate chains of
Limitations at every corner
An achievement personal, tackling these
Pointless tasks, no big deal though
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I found this somewhere on the net, a couple of years ago. If you know who wrote it then I'll attribute it. The acronym formed by the first letter of each line spells PALINDROME S EMORDNILAP |
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