一首很强的224字的英语回文诗

今天在网络上意外读到一首英语回文诗，那回读的难度系数真是不一般。一个字：绝！现在也掰一掰，滥竽充数，南郭一回。

我国的回文诗历史悠久，名家比比皆是。回文诗，顾名思义，颠来倒去都能诵读的诗。但历来好像更被文人骚客当作一种消遣的文字游戏，上不了台面。然留存下来的很多名篇佳作，给人以荡气回肠，情趣盎然的美感。

印象深刻的回文诗中最感人、颇具意境、遣词造句不凡的是宋代李禺写的《夫妻互忆回文诗》。

顺读为“夫忆妻”：

枯眼望遥山隔水，
往来曾见几心知。
壶空怕酌一杯酒，
笔下难成和韵诗。
迷路阻人离别久，
讯音无雁寄回迟。    
孤灯夜守长寥寂，
夫忆妻兮父忆儿。

倒过来读为“妻忆夫”：

儿忆父兮妻忆夫，
寂寥长守夜灯孤。
迟回寄雁无音讯，
久别离人阻路途。
诗韵和成难下笔，
酒杯一酌怕空壶。
知心几见曾来往，
水隔山遥望眼枯。

看看李禺运用文字的功底和驾驭文字的功力，无论顺读还是倒读，都是那么优美。了了数语，把孤灯下夫忆妻和妻忆夫的思念刻画得入木三分、深情表达得淋漓尽致。岂是佩服两字了得？这是文字游戏么？

英语里，回文诗对应词是palindrome ['pælindrəum] ，其定义是：A palindrome is a word or a phrase which is the same when read from the start or the end, for example the word wow or racecar. Or how about the phrase;  A Toyota’s a Toyota. where ever you start they are the same.

You would imagine a palindrome is pretty hard to think up, maybe the odd word could be easy enough, and with a bit of effort a phrase, well how about a 224 word poem?  要想出英语里的回文词或短语还不是很难，不过看看下面这首由224个英语单词的回文诗，不服不行。

Posted by Queuebot in Book & Lit on February 18, 2009 at 1:32 am

"Dammit I’m Mad"

by  Demetri Martin

Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I’m a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad.

I promise you, bar some punctuation, it reads the same forwards or backwards.