The peeping tom
\nby cricketjeff on July 29, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nA little hint of pink across her face,
\nShe saw us as we kissed and played around,
\nI tickled you and laid you on the ground
\nAnd didn’t see that she was in her place.
\nI will not hide as though we’re in disgrace
\nBecause she saw us kiss and then she frowned
\nTo see the love that we have lately found;
\nShe’ll have to turn her eyes to outer space.<\/p>\n
She tried to hide her blush from you and me
\nBut anyone with eyes was sure to see,
\nHer cheeks were never quite that red before,
\nAs round and pink as any girl’s balloon
\nAnd all because we didn’t bargain for
\nThe prying eyes that saw us from the moon.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nA French sonnet in iambic pentameter, the “French” sonnet rhyme scheme is
\nabbaabba ccdede, many sonnets in French are in 12 syllables rather than 10 (12
\nsyllable lines are called Alexandrines almost invariably consist of two six
\nsyllable hemistitches joined or maybe separated by a caesura or natural pause)
\nFrench is should be noted is not as heavily stressed a language as English nor
\ndoes it have the long and short syllables of Latin and Greek so meter is softer
\nand in a typical French Alexandrine the twelve syllables are in pentameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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