So tell me, pray, how Shakespeare’s to be read
if five iambics can’t be lodged within
my head! But then again, the questions now
arise of accidental rhyme. A sin!
But ‘read’ and ‘head’ are irresistible,
it seems to me, and surely Shakespeare’s wit
allowed for cheeky variations here
and there? A rhyme, an iamb incompletely
placed, to dangle feckless there, to challenge
motley fools, obsessed by need to count
in strict, unvaried order. DUM. Da DUM ...
'til, snoozing now, I fall upon the floor
and wonder if internal rhyme is also
frowned upon, and assonance confused
with rhyme. But, stay a while, and smile with me
for members of the Meter Bleater’s Club
will surely understand that mastery
of form precedes all variations. Yes?
And endings that are feminine will come
in time. (We’ll sneak some rhyme internally).
But hark! Let high and mighty drama now
ensue, and strike us DUM ... da DUM da DUM ...
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Author Notes
I actually LOVE writing blank verse ... really I do ... And yes, the rhyming here, internal and otherwise is intentional ... and so are the feminine endings :):):) (da DUM da ending one line, allowing the next line to begin with DUM ...)
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