A palinode, NCSU timecard, 6 hours of classes, and editing to beat the band…
I am amazed that such a thing happens/happened enough to devise a word for it, but here you go: palinode (PAL-uh-noad) noun A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem. [From Greek palinoidia, from palin (again) + oide (song).] The illustrator and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) once wrote a … Read more