Braeburn is studying poetry terms in sophomore english class. Words like enjambment, assonance, trochee, dactyl, and other odd literary words were all up for study.
Overcome by equal parts boredom and inspiration, he wrote the following poem in the style of Lewis Carroll, and anonymously handed it in.
Ready?
"The poem fell on it's assonance,
and slowly rolled away.
it alliterated the ground with broken
verbs that cracked and crunched, then lay.
It rolled into the door enjambment,
and sprained it's right trochee
when an anapest ran up and
stole the cap off his other knee.
A careless speaker kicked it,
and towards the ground it sped.
But a flapping, soaring dactyl
mistook it for it's egg.
The gigantic bird chanced a look down,
and gave a throaty scream
for it saw the dangling participle
hanging from the poem's rhyme scheme.
It dropped onto a hexameter,
broke it's couplet, and turned blue.
What was at first a narrative story poem,
was now a small haiku."
6 comments:
What did the teacher think of it?
I think it's brilliant!
That's hilarious. --although mayhaps the teacher will not think so. As the story goes, "There's a big difference betweem a smart boy and a smart aleck!"
Perhaps, to more closely imitate Carroll, it should include a few made-up words; the Jabberwock includes "brillig" and "slivy toves" that "gyred and gimballed in the wabe."
Thank you for the Apron book!!!! And the magazines. I've been trying to tell Mr. FR exactly what I mean by a big island with a sink in the middle and several of the magazines have some GREAT photos. He likes the idea now that he knows what I'm talking about. ☺
So...after the fabulous display of narrative finesse was written, did that help everyone remember the real definitions?
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