.
And i were in
The middle
uv it
"Gimmie them"
"you wear them
i
eat them"
*for the record...
james wuz not injured
in this brawl ;)
*the "candy panties" :} for feminines fella fellows
there's a bloke i know, who keeps going on
about his bowels
but besides that, i am attempting a poem
which uses meter effectively
you know, so it has rhythm and stuff
and subtle 'feminines' at the end of iambic pentameter
so that it creates something
but i haven't got the time for this
like watching a peter jackson movie, sitting
there
in the cinema, thinking..."i've got stuff to be getting on with."
Stressed/unstressed syllables (ten to a line,
remember!) take their turns. Fourteen in all
(that’s lines, not syllables), which often fall
in blocks of eight and six. You’ve got that? Fine.
Now for the rhymes. Petrarchans intertwine
like this, in staggered couplets, as they sprawl
the page. Americans are apt to call
Shakespearians, “English” sonnets. These align
in neat alternatives, until the end,
which forms a rhyming couplet. The sestet
(the six-line bit) has ordered rhymes, which tend
to vary. Feminines are lines that get
a final, unstressed, syllable tacked on it.
And there, in fourteen lines, you have a sonnet.
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