A lovely read, this - I was just talking about "Walking Away" this week with @badlilies.bsky.social Lots of poetry in rugby - sometimes trochaic - rarely very tasteful - "Sing a song of rugby - buttocks, booze and blood / thirty dirty ruffians, brawling in the mud" etc.

It's interesting how trochaics in English tend to be either comic or supremely stately.

Ha yes I should have mentioned the whole rugby song tradition. Mildly dirty songs and locker room humour is absolutely my son's thing, I have to admit. In fact, he's just been chosen for his first match -- I'm waiting for him to get home from school so I can tell him.