(odd, singular); its tail, and it is Co., plural, for company; head and tail, and it is o, nothing. Its head is a sounding C (sea), its tail a flowing D (river Dee), and amid their depths the cod may fearless play, parent of softest
sounds
yet mute for ever.
63. Metagram
a riddle in which the change of the initial letter produces a series of words of different meanings; from
meta
, implying change, and
gramma
, a letter. Thus: