Correct usage of 'nor'

[BlisdergamesbeginPack]

Can someone tell me if this line from a poem by my DD is alright please?

Not Jack, nor Jill, nor He.

I've looked online but they only mention using neither+nor, but it wouldn't work as well in her poem so she's used not+nor. She's also not sure if 'nor' or 'or' is correct. The more I think about it the more wrong every possibility seems. Your thoughts please?

I'd have thought that 'nor' is basically 'or' but used in a negative context, so given that the start of the sentence is 'Not' (a negative word) its ok.

How old is your DD - does it really matter?! Should you not be encouraging her poetry regardless of pedantic grammar issues?

I think nor is fine there.

Is "he" definitely right though? Depends on the context obviously

Now you're just getting picky lilbreeze

'He' with a capital letter generally means God/Jesus, rather than just general 'he' meaning any random bloke, or should it be 'Him/him'?

Can you post the whole thing Blisder? We can go through it with a red pen.

She is ten DoingIt, and the poem is for a competition, hence not wanting to post the whole thing. She thinks people are going to swoop down and copy it The rest is pretty straightforward anyway, I don't think there are errors.

I was unsure about the He too. It's definitely not God, she has an arrow next to the He pointing to a doodle of the person she's talking about . It's a very well-known book villain. So is it He/he/Him or him?

Do you know what, its a poem, so normal rules don't need to apply anyway. If it sounds right to her, then it is right! Good luck to her in the competition.

Agree with Doing above

isn't nor used with neither

neither use nor ornament
either put up or shut up

that sort of thing! :o

i'd say it works alliteratively is that even a word??

And for what it's worth I think 'Not Jack, nor Jill, nor He' is a damn good line.

Super! Thank you everyone. She can leave it as it is then.

yes, as everyone's said - the N on nor says "look, it's negative!" and the O on Or says "look, it's positive!"

which is why, quite often in hymns, you'll find Nor when there's never been a Not or a Neither.
"in thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail" - the Nor means that you don't see God failing. :)
(sorry to quote hymns in a secular section, it's just a very good common usage of words like that)

"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power"...

Shakespeare, Sonnet 65. No specific need for "neither", it would appear.

Yy it is a good line!