D.W. Rodgers Poet Quintain (Sicilian)

This Year - Scillian

The past year ended in burlesque
champagne oerflowing to the New.
Yet what next comes could be grotesque
if not for ancient scholars who
plot heaven's pathways at their desks.

Their charts of celestial gases
reveal the course of future time
find a path which safely passes
past Thesaurus and forced rhyme
bringing Quintain to the masses.

note - Iambic (mostly) tetrameter rather than pentameter 
but Quintain (Scillian) was the nearest form

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Renee Muravez January 5, 2015 at 9:10 PM good work, tfs! D.W. Rodgers January 13, 2015 at 4:23 PM Thanks Renee - the first two lines are true (although the wine was method chamaignois rather than the real stuff) and half the fun was to figure out rhymes for burlesque.

Francine Roberts January 5, 2015 at 12:02 PM check your rhyme scheme, it should be ababb ( Italian quintain is ababa) D.W. Rodgers January 5, 2015 at 1:04 PM My apologies - you rare correct and I'll withdraw it from your contest.