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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Adjectival Order or The Most Elegant Through-composed Six-stanza’d English Nonsense Verse Ever Penn’d

First, a determiner – ‘a,’ ‘an’ or ‘the.’
Then a number or quantity – e.g., ‘three’ (duh!).  

An opinion or quality’s next, (perhaps ‘beautiful’).   
Size and age follow – assuming one’s dutiful.

Shape and/or color succeed size and age.
The adjective proper takes up the next stage –

for example, ‘Italian’ or ‘Chinese’ or ‘Greek’ –
off’ring origins – that is, the tongues people speak.

A purpose or facet ensues (one of sport…?)
whereupon there’s presented a noun of some sort.

Of course, there are ‘and’s and ‘or’s enter’d piecemeal.  
The result…? Adjectivally order’d ideal.

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