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Group Poem Exercise III

Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:59 pm
by Slava
As previously, the rules are as follows:

We will write an English sonnet, which will contain 14 lines of iambic pentameter and will rhyme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Reminder: iambic pentameter has five stressed syllables, each preceded by an unstressed one. (e.g., u s u s u s u s u s). Again, half rhymes (like rest and east) are acceptable if you get stuck or if it makes the line make sense, and a little fudging on the iambic rule will be OK, but the lines should still contain five stressed syllables.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is an example.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

As before, copy the title and lines of the previous post so the we can keep it all together.

The title and first line are as follows:

BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue

Re: Group Poem Exercise III

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:34 pm
by Audiendus
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:27 pm
by Perry
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:04 am
by saparris
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:10 am
by saparris
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:01 pm
by Audiendus
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:28 pm
by saparris
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:35 pm
by Audiendus
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass
Although the beast was normal otherwise

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:53 pm
by saparris
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass
Although the beast was normal otherwise

The schoolmarm mused, "The poor thing is depressed"

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:09 pm
by saparris
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass
Although the beast was normal otherwise

The schoolmarm mused, "The poor thing is depressed
She must be lonesome, missing other ewes."

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:09 am
by Audiendus
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass
Although the beast was normal otherwise

The schoolmarm mused, "The poor thing is depressed
She must be lonesome, missing other ewes."
But Mary sighed, and ventured to suggest

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:30 am
by saparris
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass
Although the beast was normal otherwise

The schoolmarm mused, "The poor thing is depressed
She must be lonesome, missing other ewes."
But Mary sighed, and ventured to suggest
That lack of ram was reason for the blues

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:37 am
by saparris
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass
Although the beast was normal otherwise

The schoolmarm mused, "The poor thing is depressed
She must be lonesome, missing other ewes."
But Mary sighed, and ventured to suggest
That lack of ram was reason for the blues

A woolly playmate came to spend the night

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:16 pm
by Slava
BLUES FOR MARY

She had a little lamb, its fleece was blue
In consequence of some mutated gene
To see her you would think it's something new
An azure ovine heretofore unseen

And, so, she took the little lamb to class
And asked her science teacher to surmise
What caused this hue to run from ears to ass
Although the beast was normal otherwise

The schoolmarm mused, "The poor thing is depressed
She must be lonesome, missing other ewes."
But Mary sighed, and ventured to suggest
That lack of ram was reason for the blues

A woolly playmate came to spend the night,
And in the morn her fleece again was white.

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:26 pm
by saparris
It turned out to be a pretty good poem. Now let's see what we can do with the Goodwords in Group Poem Exercise IV. Could be a challenge to make sense of such a conglomeration.