Djangolina is struggling with her English homework, and making unhappy noises. "Daddy, can you help?"
"Depends. What's the problem?"
"We're studying Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott', and have to write a stanza in that form. I can't do it."
"Well, let's have a look..."
We analyze the form a bit. After cogitating for a while, I come up with the following:
He ready put his sharpest knife
For dinner - ordered by his wife -
By cooking would avoid he strife
In many-towered Camelot
Once gnocchi pot was on the boil
And sea-bass fillets wrapped in foil
He chopped, and fried in olive oil
The ladle of shallots.
"Er, thanks, but I think I'd better do my own. Properly."
2 comments:
Superb!
I like this - long but fun:
http://winningwriters.com/contests/wergle/2010/we10_waters.php#.Ub76A3Ks_Dc
Your problem is that you're trying to versify in a vacuum. A context makes it so much easier, viz.
"A geometrically minded young maid
Complained that she'd never been laid.
She was also annoyed
That her toy ellipsoid
Increasingly curved as she played."
See?
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