A Modest Proposal (Meter Discussion)

[rayheinrich]

A Modest Proposal


My Lady:

If I on penitent knee should bend
(My visage long with sorrow)
Would then my Lady condescend
To blow me in the ‘morrow?


Sir:

I find myself not so inclined                                
Toward your mooted notion;
I regret the morning will not find
My head bowed in devotion.


My Lady:

Fortunate he, who has no qualms
With solitary aberration;
But rather celebrates the charms    
Of autoerotic asphyxiation.

Lines 1, 7, 9, 12 aren't iambic tetrameter (fem ends on even lines are just fine).