Wednesday's Child is . . .

Well today is the day! Before I post the entries, I'll just start in by listing some of the ideas I came up with (with the help of an online rhyming dictionary):

Wednesday’s child is the C.E.O . . .
Wednesday’s child looks like a Van Gogh . . .
Wednesday’s child is not status quo . . .
Wednesday’s child walks to and fro . . .
Wednesday’s child's a tennis pro . . .
Wednesday’s child’s sweet from head to toe . . .
Wednesday’s child enjoys Thoreau . . .
Wednesday’s child has gifts to bestow . . .
Wednesday’s child can win a game show . . .
Wednesday’s child has eyes that o’erflow . . .
Wednesday’s child likes Curly and Moe . . .
Wednesday’s child wins best of show . . .
Wednesday's child is just so-so . . .

Some of those do have a few extra syllables in the meter, but mostly they work. (My personal favorite is "Wednesday's child enjoys Thoreau.")

All right. With the preliminary preliminaries out of the way, I will give you my own entry:
Wednesday's child is rollin' in dough;
Thursday's child is on the go.
Not too fantastic, but for good measure I also changed Saturday:
Saturday's child is full of thanksgiving.
(Why must Saturday's child work hard for a living?)

But let's get on to the real contestants' entries:

Tami's:

Wednesday's child is always true.

Thursday's child has much virtue.

A good answer to the second challenge; definitely in keeping with the spirit of the original poem. My only problem here is the accent falling on the "chue" sound of virtue (virtue).

Becky's:
Wednesday’s child is clever and smart,
Thursday’s child is true to the heart...

Very sweet; again it keeps with the original. There are more syllables than the original poem, but because of the way the words fall, it doesn't actually sound like too many syllables.

Ann's:
...Wednesday's child is full of trust,
Thursday's child is good and just...

The feeling fits very nicely into the original, and with perfect meter.

Ben's:
Wednesday's child is full of dough ($$$$) . . .

Perfect meter again. And, funny enough, it is the first thing I thought of too (without the rhyming dictionary)—although I think "has lots of dough" clarifies that it's money and not food.

Brad's:
Wednesday's child's softly aglow . . .

Pretty good; the idea fits nicely into the original poem, with the right number of syllables. But, to my brain at least, it reads with the accent on the "lee" part of softly (softly aglow) which seems weird. Stretch the meter a tiny bit to say "is softly aglow" and I like it better.

Jason's answer to challenge 1:

Wednesday's child learnt to row

Add the word "has" and the meter is perfect. We won't talk about Jason's answer to challenge 2.

Kaylie's:
Wednesday's child has no sorrow.
Thursday's child has 'till tomorrow.

For a seven-year-old I think this is Fantastic!! I might have said "Wednesday's child will have no sorrow" and I might have changed Thursday to "no need to borrow." But, wow! It really fit well with the spirit of the poem. Good job, Kaylie!

And here is Bruce's:
Monday's chile ain't nevah shy,
Tuesday's chile ett daddy's pie,
Wednesday's chile don't feel too well,
Thursday's chile will give 'em hell,
Friday's chile likes huntin' an' fishin',
Sattaday's chile just a sets there a wishin',
But the chile that wuz birth't on the Sabbath day
Don't nevah fuss 'less he's fixin' ta pray.

I really could say a lot of things about Bruce's. First of all, he went way beyond the mark here, although it all does rhyme and is in meter. I don't think he paid attention to any of the rules of the challenges. I also suspect he spent too much time in the South, and probably stayed up too late at night thinking of this. However, I find it very entertaining—and probably of equal value to the original poem. :-D

So it's kind of a toss-up. Well, maybe not really. Anyway, if I choose Bruce people will say we've been sleeping together. ;-) So, I declare Ann the winner! (wild applause here) As for the fabulous prize—I'll have to think about that, since it has to make it to Illinois.


I will post our new and improved poem in the sidebar as the poem of the week.

Thanks for playing!