[mairdie]

>>with apologies to Clement Moore

Ahhhhhh, come on there!

Apologies to Henry Livingston!

Listen to a typical poem of Clement Moore’s:
https://youtu.be/5EbJ4gADHBs

Now listen to a typical poem of Henry Livingston’s:
https://youtu.be/hB-uHg9QTc8

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Mac Jackson’s research identified the favored sounds used by Livingston and Moore. Then he identified the favored sounds used by the author of Night Before Christmas. Livingston’s and NBC author statistically interact. Moore’s is outside the statistical bounds.

http://henrylivingston.com/data/

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What has kept Moore protected all these years is that the man is such an awful poet that no one reprinted his body of work.

[grey_whiskers]

Point taken, Mairdie; but I am but a meme thief here. (See the pun?)

You would have to take it up with the original author of the satire. ;-)