{"id":2309,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2309"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The King is dead, long live the King!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The King is dead, long live the King!<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt is said that poetry died last week<br \/>\nWhile prose with line breaks lives<br \/>\nNever more with rhythm should you speak<br \/>\nThe use of rhyme no man forgives<\/p>\n<p>The greatest language of all time<br \/>\nThe words that shaped our toungue<br \/>\nWere built upon good flow and rhyme<br \/>\nFrom this all art has sprung<\/p>\n<p>Since English rose from ancient speech<br \/>\nThe orators used rhyme and flow<br \/>\nOur children learn best what we teach<br \/>\nWhen rhyming shows the way to go<\/p>\n<p>Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton too<br \/>\nWere rhymers when all&#8217;s said and done<br \/>\nGreat writers there have been but few<br \/>\nWho used no rhymes except in fun<\/p>\n<p>No songs worth singing can be heard<br \/>\nAll preachers close their books<br \/>\nSince now all oratory&#8217;s absurd<br \/>\nWithout linguistic hooks<\/p>\n<p>Now children will not learn to read<br \/>\nOr do much more than grunt<br \/>\nAll mankind&#8217;s progress must now bleed<br \/>\nIf &#8220;Free verse&#8221; is at the front<\/p>\n<p>So though the corpse we bury here<br \/>\nOf rhyming and it&#8217;s bedmate flow<br \/>\nThat rhyme will be reborn at once<br \/>\nTrue poets surely know!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nContest entry, a eulogy for rhyme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King is dead, long live the King! by cricketjeff on January 22, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It is said that poetry died last week While prose with line breaks lives Never more with rhythm should you speak The use of rhyme no man forgives The greatest language of all time The [&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-2309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2309","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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2309\/revisions\/9199"}],"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=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}