{"id":4665,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4665"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"impossible-question","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/impossible-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Impossible Question<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 14, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWe met and then the world was new,<br \/>\nWe kissed and everything was changed<br \/>\nAnd now you want life rearranged &#8212;<br \/>\nHow can I find a way to not love you?<\/p>\n<p>You raised me to a better view,<br \/>\nA vantage point above the clouds,<br \/>\nAbove the mean and milling crowds &#8212;<br \/>\nHow can I find a way to not love you?<\/p>\n<p>Your eyes no longer fill with dew,<br \/>\nYou want to take away those years,<br \/>\nWhilst I still bathe in all the tears &#8212;<br \/>\nHow can I find a way to not love you?<\/p>\n<p>We met and then the world was new;<br \/>\nHow can I find a way to not love you?<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nWhile playing with writing a kyrielle sonnet I tried something slightly<br \/>\ndifferent. I liked the repeat but preferred iambic pentameter for the subject<br \/>\nmatter I was dealing with and I wanted a rhyming couplet, this A1bbA2 accA2<br \/>\naddA3 A1A2 rhyme scheme gave me that and others appeared to like the structure<br \/>\nand have written the form, now called an &#8220;echo sonnet&#8221;.<br \/>\nThere is no need, I usually prefer not to, to use exactly the same repeating<br \/>\nline, but at least the rhyming word should be. A slowly developing line is<br \/>\noften effective, I hope the perfect repeats here work for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impossible Question by cricketjeff on July 14, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved We met and then the world was new, We kissed and everything was changed And now you want life rearranged &#8212; How can I find a way to not love you? You raised me to a better view, A vantage point [&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-4665","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4665","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=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4665\/revisions\/6844"}],"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=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}