11-29-2015, 01:41 PM
It's long past time the poetry world heard
of Shakespeare's love of short and dangly bits --
the Lord knows how he's come to be revered
for lazy slanting rhymes. Yes, they're the pits.
Elision was another of his crimes --
though nob'dy'd do it now, he'd jam it in
where'er the fit -- it wasn't just the times
as people think. This vile poetic sin
has come, in minds of philistines, to be
how "poetry" should sound: anachronistic
with much abused inversions by degree
and parts that make no sense, or sound simplistic.
But everyone's a bard these days, you know,
so just sit back and bask in Willy's glow.
of Shakespeare's love of short and dangly bits --
the Lord knows how he's come to be revered
for lazy slanting rhymes. Yes, they're the pits.
Elision was another of his crimes --
though nob'dy'd do it now, he'd jam it in
where'er the fit -- it wasn't just the times
as people think. This vile poetic sin
has come, in minds of philistines, to be
how "poetry" should sound: anachronistic
with much abused inversions by degree
and parts that make no sense, or sound simplistic.
But everyone's a bard these days, you know,
so just sit back and bask in Willy's glow.