Mageeks For Dummies: A Tutorial

The Mageek begins with an anagram pair and develops from there ala Ogden Nash, arriving finally at a rhyming couplet.    

To create one, first select a subject -- a book, a celebrity, a famous town etc. Second, build a matching anagram by rearranging the letters of the subject selected to form another word, clause or phrase to follow the subject. Together the subject and its anagram line form an opening clause or phrase. Third, compose a line to rhyme with that opening clause or phrase -- ideally one of some length -- as a colloquy on the opening subject/anagram pair.

Example I:

 
(1) Select a subject:

 
The Iliad 

(2a) Build its anagram:

  

THEILIAD

HAITLIED

(2b) Form the opening phrase: 

The Iliad...? Ha! It lied. 

(3) Compose a rhyming line: 

        

‘Twas young Hektor who thrived; 

'twas Achilles who (Homer sang) died. 

(4) Voila! A Mageek! 

The Iliad...? Ha! It lied:

'Twas young Hector who thrived and Achilles who (Home sang) died. 

(As is seen in this example, a mageek 

may not always reflect reality.) 

Example II:

 

The Odyssey doth (yes, yes!)
tells us more about Homer than ill-inform’d readers might guess.