Thread:ScottyBlue/@comment-4078511-20130528010142

I'm really behind on this, but I was just looking through the Fan Poems on this site, and I ran into your "Otter's Marching Ballad."

Wow! The imagination in there! I loved the AABA rhyme scheme in the verses, especially in conjunction with how concise each line is and how you used the natural stresses of words to form a strong, fast-moving meter. And with all of the going on in the background, you still filled the otters' exchanges with hilarious character--the way the crew phrases things with a mixture of polite suggestion and outright frustration, which only builds as the verses go on, and the way Skipper just stomps them out with exaggerated confidence.

And the way the "plot" of the poem ends is fantastic (We're back 'ome now, that much is true,/But not because we follered you;/We follered the smell o' yore wife's stew!"). This whole thing (and that ending especially) fits so well in the Redwall universe, but it's absolutely, wonderfully original!

Wow. I had to come and comment here because I was so floored by the quality of your work. Anyways, great writing! 