{"id":1839,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1839"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-curse-of-the-iamb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-curse-of-the-iamb\/","title":{"rendered":"The curse of the iamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The curse of the iamb<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 22, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI am studying the iamb<br \/>\nRight now my sonnets stink<br \/>\nWriting iambic pentameter<br \/>\nIs harder than you think<\/p>\n<p>Five \u201ctee tums\u201d I have to find<br \/>\nRepeated fourteen times<br \/>\nAnd if that wasn\u2019t hard enough<br \/>\nI need seven pairs of rhymes<\/p>\n<p>With what I write, I find \u201ctum tee tum\u201d<br \/>\nA bouncier sort of flow<br \/>\nBut plain iambic pentameter<br \/>\nIs the way that sonnets go<\/p>\n<p>Romantic rhymes through history<br \/>\nHave taken sonnet form<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019d really like to have a go<br \/>\nTo keep tradition warm<\/p>\n<p>But all the sonnets I have tried<br \/>\nHave lost the rigid beat<br \/>\nI do not want to be denied<br \/>\nSo I\u2019m turning up the heat<\/p>\n<p>When I have done with this short tale<br \/>\nAnd then my working day<br \/>\nI\u2019m back to bashing iambs<br \/>\nUntil a sonnet comes my way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curse of the iamb by cricketjeff on August 22, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I am studying the iamb Right now my sonnets stink Writing iambic pentameter Is harder than you think Five \u201ctee tums\u201d I have to find Repeated fourteen times And if that wasn\u2019t hard enough I need seven pairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1839","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9670,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1839\/revisions\/9670"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}