Saturday, May 26, 2012

Found monostichs


Inadvertent monostichs (being sentence-fragments, though otherwise unedited save for spacing):


a row of stolid Frisians on the quay
-- Erskine Childers, Riddle of the Sands (1903)

Through that  window   the yellow sun
-- J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man (1955)

Disaster came faster  than the French could comprehend.
-- Wm Shirer, The Nightmare Years (1984)


[For more on "found monostichs", click here:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/07/monostich-xxiii.html  ]

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