Friday, July 28, 2006

Like a Sonnet

It isn't cumbersome to write this way,
In spite of what you're told. The metre runs
Like normal speech, and if I wanted puns
Or ambiguity, that's mere child's play.
The main thing is to write what you would say,
But concentrating, like a thousand suns,
On hitting where you aim. Like Gatling guns,
These verses have a tendency to spray.

So that's the octave done. Now comes the part
That's harder: make the sestet. Like a hat
That fits right, a sestet may not lie flat
If everything's not working at the start.
Then rhyme and metre help you learn by heart
What should be in your head. Something like that.

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