On reading
\nby cricketjeff on April 2, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nHorrible stories to frighten us
\nPlenty of magical fantasies
\nMorality tales to enlighten us<\/p>\n
In a yarn you are put at your ease
\nAnd the themes can condense into you
\nWhile your dreams can begin as they please<\/p>\n
No story can die without issue
\nIt leaves you with more than you started,
\nThe dreams that its author would wish you.<\/p>\n
Read great works by those who’re whole hearted
\nMark Twain and Shakespeare and Charles Dickens
\nBefore you’re “our dearly departed”<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI don’t like this, but I had to try!<\/p>\n
1-3 in dactylic trimeter. (\/xx \/xx \/xx)
\n4-6 in anapestic trimeter. (xx\/ xx\/ xx\/)
\n7-9 in amphibrachic trimeter (x\/x x\/x x\/x)
\n10-12 antibacchus (\/\/x \/\/x \/\/x)<\/p>\n
Rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc dad<\/p>\n
I find antibacchuses very hard to write in English, and I am forcing the meter
\nto try to make the cross meter rhymes work. I rather doubt they do!<\/p>\n
Ah well, it was a good puzzle [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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