Bluebillgurgle

The Bluebillgurgle is a Dutch poem from 1942, written by C. Buddingh'. He wrote it soon after he was taken in the sanatorium Zonnegloren for tuberculosis and read a story by the English children's book writer Edith Nesbit which contained a bluebillgurgle.Allerlei media noemen dit als feit, maar waarop is deze stelling gebaseerd? Zelfs als Buddingh' het gezegd heeft kan het een mystificatie zijn. It's the first of Buddingh's gurglerhymes^[1] and there followed another 72 about imaginary creatures, under which the pantippel, the simmelot, the waxnoserhino and the silversandhare.^[2] Soon before Buddingh's death a new series of gurglerhymes appeared in the bundle New Gurglerhymes (1985).

In the poem Buddingh' uses parallelism on different levels: the four couplets have the same construction: they have a strict rhythm, following the rhyme scheme aa-bbb, opening with basically the same first sentence and ending with a tricolon. The last words of each second line form a paronomasia that rhymes with bluebillgurgle.

The bluebillgurgle is apparently a living creature that gives a description of birth till death: one time it refers to itself as the bluebillgurgle, the three times after it refers to itself as a bluebillgurgle.

It makes correct sentences, but with neologisms that leave everything to the imagination like [I] knuster with my knezidon. Existing words like wok en reap seam to not be used as their normal definition.^[3] The creature references its diet and its life style, but only its name gives a suggestion of its appearance. Its parents are a porgle and a porulan. In the story the sun and the nightowl get referenced and the creature predicts that after its death it will shrink into a blue pebble.