Sincere admiration for cluing so clever!
Your scansion and rhymes I revere, and apt turns of phrase also crown your endeavor--I really like "squinting your ear"!
I'd never heard of "scansion"; I didn't have a clue. So, I looked it up and now can say that I've learned something new! (Anyway, I send my thanks to you and to all the others who left comments!)
It's an Asian city, chock full of culture, a place where technology abounds. / Yes, this busy capital has heart and spirit. (Well, at least that's how it sounds!)
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It's an Asian city, chock full of culture, a place where technology abounds. / Yes, this busy capital has heart and spirit. (Well, at least that's how it sounds!)
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"You gotta oat milk it for all it's worth!" "I wanna be the Big Soy Cheese for a change!" / "What's your tofu with me -- what've I done to you?" Someone who's THIS might use idioms rather strange...
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It's a place to raise cattle. And to do other things, I'm guessing. / Like, I can picture myself on the staff at this place, working in the kitchen, making some dressing!
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Joe: "As a voracious eater, I eat a lot. And fast! I barely taste what I'm fed!" / Jane: "You need to slow down. In fact, what you need to do is hidden in the words you just said."
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It's a heart, a liver, a spleen, a lung -- many of this thing are found in your chest. / (Sounds a little, if you squint your ears, like a US state away out west.)
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"Lunge pose" in yoga -- utthita ashwa sanchalanasana - is normally not a big deal. / Except in late morning -- if asked to do it then, I think of nothing but this next meal!