cleverdevice24 Feb 2004

I never intended to pass all this poem off as my own, hence the admission (I wasn't exactly ridden with guilt, shaking and sweating fearing God's wrath). Just because I didn't chose to use quotation marks doesn't mean its plagiarism all of a sudden. To plagiarise:'' to use another person's idea or a part of their work and pretend that it is your own'', freeserve online dictionary, ''to take and use as one's own, the thoughts, writings or inventions of another'' - Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, ''to take ideas writings, etc. from another and pass them off as one's own'' - Collins Concise English Dictionary. Now how does that relate to this phrase quoted from above? '' the first stanza is not mine...I cannot take credit for it''. I have not, do not and will not take credit for the first stanza, so how can I be plagiarising when the definition is to pass off other's works as my own? Regardless of what punctuation devices are used in the body of the poem. Cock.