[Bards] Poetic Exercise #3

[Samuel E Orton]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:30:27 -0700 Samuel E Orton <iainmacc at juno.com>
writes:

On 17 Sep 2003 02:38:26 -0500 Ulf Gunnarsson <ulfie at cox.net> writes:
> 
> For bardic exercise #3, write four lines of iambic pentameter.  The
> subject should be an "unattainable", such as your Queen, a knight, 
> or a
> church figure.  It should be expressed in terms of courtly love.  


        Her beauty, such as I have never seen,
        Her wisdom, such as I have never heard.
        There only is one word: She is my Queen.
        I'll always live and die upon her word.

        Even as I wrote this, I disliked the recurrence of "word" that
close together. So I decided to rewrite the third line:

        Her beauty, such as I have never seen,
        Her wisdom, such as I have never heard.
        I've said it many times: She is my Queen.
        I'll always live and die upon her word.

                                                        In Joyful
Service,

                                                                Iain
MacCrimmon
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