Do nonsense rhymes make any sense?
It’s really hard to know.
Beyond the meaning and the sense,
Ideas still ebb and flow.
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To waste away one’s precious time
May well seem quite demeaning.
While given that they make no sense,
They can be full of meaning!
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There’s Nash and Lear, Carroll and Seuss,
Kipling, Belloc and Field.
There’s Eliot, Milligan, Kipling and Bell,
What wonders do they yield?
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They have no ground in reasoning.
In logic they make pretense.
It remains an utter mystery,
That the best of them make sense.
