Shakespeare and Idioms
“O’ Shepherd, a penny for your thoughts,
What a handsome couplet we would make!
Let’s seize the day and let’s make hay”
“Madam, have we metaphor?
Get thee to a nunnery *
For I am betrothed to a maid most true,
Who goes by the name of Villanelle”
“You mean the maid who lives down by the stream,
“About a meter or so by yon,
I really simply cannot stanza”
“Madam, for your amplification,
You are an anastrophe”
“O’ Shepherd, don’t be an oxymoron,
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit, *
I am hired to help you with your labours,
Let’s seize the day and let’s make hay”
“Madam, do you consider me an idiom?
Let’s no longer beat about the bush,
For I have bigger fish to fry”
“O’ Shepherd, come and punch above your crooked staff,
And by the way, please call me Consonance,
If music be the food of love, *
Let’s seize the day and let’s play on”
“Madam, you are as mad as a Hatter,
Simply barking up the wrong tree,
And your innuendos bring out my analogy”
“Shepherd,
There's many a man has more hair than wit, *
So, you take out to graze that countless flock,
You seize the day and I’ll be on my way.
Adieu"
6/11/22
*William Shakespeare
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