There's nothing finer than to rhyme
With perfect meter beating time
You have to let the language play
And show the world the proper way
You sound profound
with rhyme around
So follow me
And assonate
And resonate
Your poetry
It's so much fun to choose your words
Avoiding obvious absurds
You ought to mix in other tricks
To give the reader quite a fix
Of poets fun
Along the run
Alliterate
Give tongues a twist
That will assist
In sounding great
At last you're ready to declaim
The spoken word bring you fame
You read aloud your poetry
So all your friends will have to see
That you are smart
You know your art
They ought to bow
And scrape to you
That's what they'll do
So show them how!
Author notes
(i) I wish you to write two or three stanzas with the PATTERN:
aabbccdeed. This is a very close approximation to Henry's stanzas. Of course, I do not require you to copy Henry's rhymes necessarily but to use this PATTERN for each stanza.
(ii) This poem by his very late majesty is a light-hearted one.
You are to write on an activity (or associated ones) that are your "pastance"!
(iii) The first four lines of each stanza should be eight syllables and the following six lines are to be four syllables.
(iv) Repetition to give a song-like character: Notice Henry used "pastance" twice; "company" four times; 'good' (& goodly) four times; "vices" twice, etc. Now, I do not wish you to 'ape' this but bear the repetition of certain words and syntactical methods
in mind.
(v) Enjoy yourself. Direct further questions to the account 'Winklings'. Oh, enter as many times as you wish. Make a banquet of it!
A contest entry
- #128 Winklings but open to all at Allpoetry! Yes, you!!! by Winklings Account.
6030 points, ended October 22, 6 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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A fine example of how ...
A rhyming verse does lurk to work
One's brain to keep a beat,
While sneaking in that little smirk
So slyly with repeat ... ... ...
Repleat affair that's shared with care
For how it's going to sound,
And then embarks to earn high marks
And honor that's renown!
Congratulations poet! j
y
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Congratulations on taking the Gold with this wonderful tribute to rhyme! I enjoyed this poem immensely!
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Congratulations!
This is fun, well done! It is clear that you are enthusiastic about rhyming poetry.
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I am enthusiastic about all poetry
But rhyme in very large measures
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Technically perfect rendition, poet.
You created a Tudor Ayre with flamboyance. The jollification present in the poem relies on rhyme and rhythm. You have done surpassingly well on all counts in a right royal song that, no doubt, Henry could have read himself and sung. Humbling, isn't it? Bless you.
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I marvel when others
rhyme so well, it takes me ages, and I know full well the reason for this. I skipped along when reading this poem, and thought, surely we have a master here! Good luck in the contest. Frans
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Brilliant with a capital B (for Bumpy!)
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Indeed very interesting.
Like it.
Best wishes hon
Love
Tory
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It recalls a Trij, doesn't it! I am actually whistling the tune as I read this (did you twig that this was actually a song?) - the royalties go to royalty!
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Very different structure but it really works and works quite well. I may have to try this.
Love,
Amera♥
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