Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling,

In mystic force and magic spelling.

Celestial sprites elucidate,

All my own striving can't relate.

What Am I ?

Well lets speculate:
SIR? What is that supposed to be? It doesn't seem like this riddle is adressing anyone in paritcular so why SIR?
A RHYME EXCELLING? Could this word possibly rhyme with one of the words in the riddle? It makes sense that the answer would rhyme with the I in WHAT AM I?
Mystic force? Seemingly no relation.
Magic spelling? OK, so it is a word that is spelled curiously. Big whoop.
Celestial sprites? Elucidate? What a load of garbage! This is definentily a filler of some sort.
Striving? Maybe everything it states has little relationship to other clues. That or it could be composed of entirely different elements (not literally) like a play on words. Or, this being the worst scenario, everything it had said was completely bogus and we have to turn to other clues for evidence.
If so, how about patterns? None.
Hmm, capitol letters? SICAW, no. WACIS, no.
Blimey, math! Ok letter-number substituion, no.

OMG!

Number of letters in a word, BINGO! 3,14159 . . . where the , is a .! Wow, pi. It actually works! Man, someone give me a cookie for all that!
It works because the unrelated striving stuff is refering to a repeating irrational decimal.

A red-rated difficulty all mine! I have triumphed!

Posted by Drew on 2003-10-09 20:06:49