Today’s rhyme “Dance to Your Daddy,” is kind of cute, though based on the context I wasn’t completely sure if the father was even there.
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I must say, beyond the cliche about Donkey’s being stubborn, today’s rhyme, “Donkey, Donkey, Do Not Bray,” made little sense to me. I decided to go with the donkey holding the narrator up so much that it took him the whole day to get his butter to the market.
Also, it looks like my trouble drawing horses extends to their entire family.
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I’ve been beginning to cringe anytime I get a number between 450 and 600 on this challenge because it means it’s one of the almanac rhymes that says something abstract about the weather and I would feel guilty about skipping it and reaching for another number. But today’s rhyme, “Happy is the Bride that the Sun shines on” had just enough to work with.
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Well for this rhyme, “It’s Once I Courted As Pretty a Lass”, I was afraid I was dealing with one of the cliche’s of this collection, a gentleman gone a wooing… that is until I got to the last verse and found it very entertaining. I think this is one of the few times I find Values Dissonance working in out favor. The narrator clearly thinks this is a story about a faithless woman, where as I read it as someone dealing with a pest. All the way through drawing this I kept thinking “You go, Girl!”
The only problem I had with this was that I wasn’t sure if a Hog Tub was the same as a pig trough in the context of the poem… I decided not to worry about it.
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Today’s rhyme, “A Robin and a Robin’s Son” was one I just couldn’t resist. The possibilities just started popping up as soon as I read the first line. The only challenge was making sure the tiny little robins were visible in the scene I envisioned.
I decided to go with contemporary rather than the usual poorly (not at all) researched pseudo Georgian aesthetic because it reminded me of several of the bakeries at the assorted farmer’s markets in Seattle specifically the Little Prague Bakery that specialize in wonderfully enticing pastries.
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Today’s Rhyme ” The Old Man in the Velvet Coat” for me hits the land of Values Dissonance again. The poem doesn’t say anything about whether the “maid” (don’t know if that means girl or servant in the context, I went with the servant) wanted it or not… In fact it seems that the only thing that the rhyme disapproves of is the fact that the old man stiffed her with a coin she couldn’t spend… In other versions of this rhyme there’s more verses suggesting that the velvet coat was a way of making a foolish person look more important.
Well this starts the home stretch to the end of this thing, three quarters through. Feeling pumped.
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