{"id":3386,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3386"},"modified":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:45:12","slug":"bluer-than-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/b-poems\/bluer-than-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluer than the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bluer than the sky<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nBecause the sky is blue it makes me cry<br \/>\nA day of cloud and rain would make me smile<br \/>\nThe weather and my heart could reconcile<br \/>\nI&#8217;m far from you and bluer than the sky<\/p>\n<p>Because the sky is blue I find that I<br \/>\nAm out of step with all that is around<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t enjoy the happiness that&#8217;s found<br \/>\nI&#8217;m far from you and bluer than the sky<\/p>\n<p>Because the sky is blue I&#8217;m asking why<br \/>\nIs it so hard to be so far away<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather miss you on a rainy day<br \/>\nI&#8217;m far from you and bluer than the sky<\/p>\n<p>Because the sky is blue it makes me cry<br \/>\nI&#8217;m far from you and bluer than the sky<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nInspired by the Beatles&#8217; line<br \/>\nBecause the sky is blue, it makes me cry<\/p>\n<p>The form is an &#8220;Echo Sonnet&#8221;, A sonnet form I have based upon the kyrielle<br \/>\nsonnet. The lines are ten syllable, preferably iambic pentameter, with the<br \/>\nrhyme scheme abbA accA addA aA, and with the final line of each stanza being<br \/>\nthe same, or a developed version of the same line with the same rhyming word.<br \/>\nIn addition the first line is similarly repeated as the thirteenth line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluer than the sky by cricketjeff on November 14, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Because the sky is blue it makes me cry A day of cloud and rain would make me smile The weather and my heart could reconcile I&#8217;m far from you and bluer than the sky Because the sky is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3386","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=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3386\/revisions\/8122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}