[Bards] Poetic Exercise #4

Floyd Brigdon brigdon at tvcc.edu
Tue Sep 23 19:41:14 PDT 2003


(With MANY apologies to the shade of Mr. Tolkien for the beginning of
this....)


Now here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried sound,
And now I have to make my home
Within the cold, cold ground.

In next life when I shoot my bow
And bow-string I do bend,
Perhaps it would be wiser then
To sight from t'other end.


Milo LeRoux
>
> At 07:38 PM 9/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >To this point, there has been no requirement of end-rhyme. End-rhyme is
> >where the words at the end of two lines rhyme, such as in "Roses are
> >red" and many nursery rhymes.  Rhyming as we know it today was not used
> >often in early times.  It started to grow in popularity after the
> >millennium, and predominated poetry by the High Middle Ages.
> >
> >Exercise #4 asks you to write two stanza in the form know as "ballad".
> >It is iambic, as before (duh DUH duh DUH ...).  The first and third line
> >are iambic tetrameter (four feet) and the second and fourth line are
> >iambic trimeter (three feet).  The second and fourth line should rhyme.
> >To keep it just a little bit difficult, let's use nothing but perfect
> >rhymes.  As for topic, write about a humorous situation.
> >
> >An example:
> >
> >My love is all alone this night,
> >Her bed an empty sea,
> >Where once the storms of passion blew
> >And carried her to me.
> >
> >She lies in sleep so well reposed,
> >A smile above her chin.
> >And if I beg forgiveness true
> >She might let me back in.
> >
> >Ulf Gunnarsson
> >
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