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After the success of the "Story from the Tube", how about a poem? As The Orange One was quite keen on travelling along the network line by line, I propose we do it that way this time. The rules are:

(1) The first player writes a rhyming couplet containing the name of any terminus. After that, each player writes a rhyming couplet containing the name of the next station along the line until the other terminus. (If the line branches, you have a choice of which way to go.)
(2) The rhyming couplet must consist of two lines with either of the following scansion patterns:
di-DAH-di-DAH-di-DAH-di-DAH-di-DAH (iambic pentameter), or
di-DAH-di-DAH-di-DAH-di-DAH-di-DAH-di.
Occasionally there may be a station that can't be fitted into this pattern and the rules may have to be bent slightly, but please don't be too sloppy with the scansion or the rhyming.
(3) If you can make the name of the station into a rhyming word, try to do so (though it won't always be possible).

Here's a complete example for the Waterloo and City line:

While waiting for the train at Waterloo,
I couldn't think of anything to do.
And so I had my lucky stars to thank
That soon I'd be the owner of a Bank.

Got the idea? Right, I'll start us off on the Bakerloo line:

While standing at the Elephant and Castle,
I saw a man delivering a parcel...

He headed north into another Borough
Crossed London Bridge, and there he met his mother

"I'm sorry" he said "but your birthday pressie"
"Has just been popped around to Auntie Bessie"

Oops just read the first post properly and realised I should have gone up the Bakerloo

He took the brown line up towards Lambeth North
Where he bumped into his mum who did burst forth

Usual teething problems! Ignoring Iain's first post (wrong line) and Going Underground's post (no station), the poem so far reads:

While standing at the Elephant and Castle,
I saw a man delivering a parcel.
He took the brown line up towards Lambeth North
Where he bumped into his mum who did burst forth...

Next person has to write a rhyming couplet for Waterloo. (As I've just done one for Waterloo myself I'll leave that to someone else.)

At Waterloo she left him on the train,
"To get your present I must brave the rain..."

She went, but was unable to relax:
A high Embankment stopped her in her tracks.

And on the right, a firy tree was charing.
"Cross over quick", she thought. "My knees are jarring!"

• That was tricky...

EDITED

To Piccadilly Circus she was bound,
For various souvenirs can there be found,

(Sorry! I saw Waterloo, Embankment, Charing Cross and thought "Leicester Square" - I don't take the Bakerloo very much)

The Orange One wrote:She saw a limo bound for Leicester Square,
With film stars going to see a premiere,

Er, "Foul!" I think! You have to stay on the Bakerloo! (Try again...)

Carrying on to Oxford Circus
With a very strong sense of purpose

poetry
shmoetry


perhaps i'll give this game a miss...

This could be Rotterdam or Amsterdam or anywhere at all

greatkingrat wrote:Carrying on to Oxford Circus
With a very strong sense of purpose

[I don't mind the imperfect rhyme, but do you mind if I rewrite this so that it scans better? Perhaps:
"She carried on ahead to Oxford Circus
Displaying an uncommon sense of purpose..."]

Then, seeing that the skies were growing dark,
She stopped beneath a tree in Regent's Park.

Might I suggest you lot consult a tube map when playing this game. Most of you can't even make a journey on the Bakerloo in central London without getting lost ...