Badgers are beautiful

By well-wisher

Tue, 23 Oct 2012
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7 comments
 

Badgers are bashful but beautiful creatures,
well known for their elegant, black and white features.
In hills, fields and forests they’re normally found
or in houses called Setts they build deep underground
and at night they come out just to badger about
and to snuffle for grubs with their black and white snouts
but they’re also ferocious when they’re in a fight,
so, if you meet a badger, please do be polite.

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Comments

Submitted by Orpheus on
Quite quirky creatures, sadly hated by farmers, but a nice read.

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
A lovely rhythm, and clear content.I did find the last line just a bit difficult to keep the emphasis, I think I was inclined to want to emphasise, the 'so' and so stress the line like 'so, if you meet a badger…'. Maybe just a quirk with me, but if you felt the same you could just do 'if you meet with a badger, please do be polite.' or write the 'you' in intalics to draw the emphasis there. Really do like the verse though and enjoyed it much! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by well-wisher on
Thanks, Rhiannon. I can see what you mean about emphasis and I know that, in children's story books, italics are often used to emphasize words. Personally, I don't think it's really absolutely necessary to add emphasis in the way you've suggested but I'm happy to change it if it pleases ABCtalers.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

Submitted by well-wisher on
Thanks, Orpheus If only badgers laid golden eggs then men wouldn't think of killing them. When human beings care enough and make the effort, they can do extraordinary things like go to the moon but talk about immunizing all the badgers rather than culling them and all you get is 'we can't immunize all the badgers, they're wild animals, it would be too difficult'. Difficult Shmifficult. The truth is, people just aren't willing to go the extra mile to protect animals unless there's money to be made from it. There's now talk of extending voting rights to 16 year olds. Why don't we extend it to badgers instead? They know as much about politics as the average 16 year old and are a lot nicer in my opinion.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
You do what you like, well-wisher. But I thought it was 'you', and maybe 'so' that you wanted emphasised. What I tried to say was without the emphasis, I found myself stressing 'so' and 'meet' which wasn't what I thought you wanted. I don't think I'm communicating well, sorry. You put what seems best to you! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by well-wisher on
Okay, I've emphasized 'you' instead of 'so' and 'meet'. I tried emphasizing 'so' and 'you', 'you' and 'meet' and also 'so', 'you' and 'meet' but it looked too crowded with italics so, in the end, I just settled on 'you' in italics. Hope it works better now.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
sorry to cause you bother, what you've done is exactly what I was trying to suggest, as it seemed the way you were wanting it read, and fits the rest of the lovely rhythm to my mind. I'm not too good explaining myself obviously, regards, Rhiannon