{"id":3569,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3569"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-key","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"The key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The key<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\n[Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/301.html]<\/p>\n<p>A little flash of silver in your hand<br \/>\nAnd then I feel a tug upon my chest<br \/>\nMy heart has now been given to the best<br \/>\nI wonder if I&#8217;ll ever understand<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I can&#8217;t pretend my life was closely planned<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You came as sweetest serendipity<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And locked my heart and carried off the key<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I wonder if I&#8217;ll ever understand<br \/>\nThe greatest gift from any foreign land<br \/>\nHas wrapped me up and carried me away<br \/>\nIn love with her is how I&#8217;ll surely stay<br \/>\nI wonder if I&#8217;ll ever understand<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A little flash of silver in your hand<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I wonder if I&#8217;ll ever understand<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nAn Echo sonnet, a form I came up with while playing with a Kyrielle sonnet,<br \/>\nRhymed A1bbA2 accA2 addA2 A1A2, that is the first and fourth lines are repeated<br \/>\nas the couplet and the fourth line is also the eighth and twelfth. All in<br \/>\niambic pentameter (although IP is not compulsory)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key by cricketjeff on January 29, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%203_files\/301.html] A little flash of silver in your hand And then I feel a tug upon my chest My heart has now been given to the best I wonder if I&#8217;ll ever understand \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I can&#8217;t pretend my life [&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-3569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3569","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=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3569\/revisions\/7940"}],"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=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}