{"id":2438,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2438"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"ill-give-it-a-go","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/ill-give-it-a-go\/","title":{"rendered":"I\\&#8217;ll give it a go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;ll give it a go<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 28, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI live in an exciting time<br \/>\nIn just a year I&#8217;ve made a climb<br \/>\nFrom doggerel to verse sublime<br \/>\nI live to rhyme, I love to rhyme<\/p>\n<p>A friend convinced me that I should<br \/>\nCome out from underneath my hood<br \/>\nMake sure that it is understood<br \/>\nI am quite good, I am quite good<\/p>\n<p>Good advice I never spurn<br \/>\nI came on here so I could learn<br \/>\nI bask in any praise I earn<br \/>\nIt is my turn! It is my turn!<\/p>\n<p>Not helping others is a sin<br \/>\nSo to that end I shall begin<br \/>\nTo help you get your verses in<br \/>\nI want to win! I want to win!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThis is a &#8220;monotetra&#8221; think of it as a Sapphic ode with mono-rhyme and repeat<br \/>\nthe last line.<br \/>\nI may play with this again, exact repeats of the 4 syllable hemistitch seem<br \/>\nwasteful to me.<\/p>\n<p>Being me I have very slightly broken the rules, do repeats have to be exact? I<br \/>\nlike it as I have written it but if you wish read the first and last repeats<br \/>\nwith the second half doubled missing the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll give it a go by cricketjeff on February 28, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I live in an exciting time In just a year I&#8217;ve made a climb From doggerel to verse sublime I live to rhyme, I love to rhyme A friend convinced me that I should Come out from underneath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2438","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2438","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=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2438\/revisions\/9070"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}