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Posted by baxter on 11-10-2002 at18:14:

  The Bard and the Band That Won't

With this thread everybody can add two new lines to a quatrain. By the final couplet, the sonnet should be at least remotely related to TST.

We will begin each sonnet with original lines from the Bard.



Lo! As a careful housewife runs to catch
One of her feathered creatures broke away...

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Posted by Andrew on 11-10-2002 at18:44:

  Not a poet and I know it

quote:

Originally posted by baxter Lo! As a careful housewife runs to catch One of her feathered creatures broke away...

She ran to find it met it's match
Upon the table of a king so gay...

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Posted by carl on 11-11-2002 at09:51:

 

Prithee, munchies now, said he
'Cause I so verily hungry be....

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Posted by baxter on 11-11-2002 at14:30:

 

You'll not devour my old conj'ring chickee
But sate thyself on these taquitos three


Remember: iambic pentameter
ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG

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Posted by Andrew on 11-11-2002 at15:27:

 

Replied said he to her "Per chance...
Taquitos they be a tasy treat?

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Posted by Andrew on 11-11-2002 at15:28:

 

To true and papa did a little dance
down on old olvera street

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Posted by baxter on 11-11-2002 at15:29:

 

i saw that one coming with "treat," Andrew

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Posted by baxter on 11-11-2002 at21:02:

 

Not bad for our first one.
William wrote about 150 of them, so by the 40th or so we should have it down.

Remember: Iambic pentameter
ABAB
CDCD
EFEF
GG


What potions have i drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within...

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Posted by baxter on 11-13-2002 at02:14:

 




Applying gin to tubs, cranbr'ies, grapes, pears
Would Terry drink this swill, this bathtub gin? ...