Ottava Rima: Iambic pentameter, 8 lines worth. Rhyme scheme: ABABABCC.
My Orlando poem:
One day an orphan came to our front door
Bedraggled; hungry; a sad, sorry cat.
Big eyes and ears; a small warm orange paw;
Just looking for a home, a meal, a pat.
So- now Orlando is alone no more,
His fur is thick; his tummy round and fat.
This mischief maker in our hearts has grown
We're happy in our house he has his home.
Maybe a little overly alliterated in the last two lines but it just came out like that.
The last assignment was the Spencerian Stanza, eight lines worth of iambic pentameter with a nineth line of iambic heptameter (or an alexandrine)! I have to say that I don't think iambic pentameter is quite my thing. I find the lines a little long to construct. Give me the tetrameter anytime. Anyway, I have decided to cheat a little by varying the above verse. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCBCC. So here goes:
One day an orphan came to our front door
Bedraggled; hungry; a sad, sorry cat.
Big eyes and ears; a small warm orange paw;
Just looking for a home, a meal, a pat.
But now Orlando's getting round and fat
With lots of company; he's not alone,
Bedraggled; hungry; a sad, sorry cat.
Big eyes and ears; a small warm orange paw;
Just looking for a home, a meal, a pat.
But now Orlando's getting round and fat
With lots of company; he's not alone,
(In fact sometimes he's quite the little brat)
Oh mischief maker, in our hearts you've grown,
We are so glad that its with us that you have made your home.
Oh mischief maker, in our hearts you've grown,
We are so glad that its with us that you have made your home.
Thank heavens! Now I can move on to the next exercise.
Someone left a comment on my blog inviting us to go leave our poems on a UK based site...a collection of like-minded people. U want? Go check one of my early poetry exercises and you'll see it under comments. See I told you there were other people reading our poetry :).
ReplyDeleteFound the link and surfed around a little on the site. The first thing which caught my eye was a forum topic entitled "vicious review".
ReplyDeleteHmmm....