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baxter
Ubique Epoque
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The Bard and the Band That Won't |
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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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11-10-2002 18:14 |
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Andrew
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 03-14-2002
Posts: 651
Location: Bleak human landscape, flat roofed houses, bad breath, vacant lots and murder evidence. God saves and leads a remnant of scraggly, faithless people, in spite of themsleves and just because he feels like it.
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Originally posted by baxter
Lo! As a careful housewife runs to catch
One of her feathered creatures broke away...
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She ran to find it met it's match
Upon the table of a king so gay...
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11-10-2002 18:44 |
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carl
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Prithee, munchies now, said he
'Cause I so verily hungry be....
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11-11-2002 09:51 |
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baxter
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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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11-11-2002 14:30 |
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Andrew
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 03-14-2002
Posts: 651
Location: Bleak human landscape, flat roofed houses, bad breath, vacant lots and murder evidence. God saves and leads a remnant of scraggly, faithless people, in spite of themsleves and just because he feels like it.
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Replied said he to her "Per chance...
Taquitos they be a tasy treat?
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11-11-2002 15:27 |
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Andrew
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 03-14-2002
Posts: 651
Location: Bleak human landscape, flat roofed houses, bad breath, vacant lots and murder evidence. God saves and leads a remnant of scraggly, faithless people, in spite of themsleves and just because he feels like it.
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To true and papa did a little dance
down on old olvera street
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11-11-2002 15:28 |
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baxter
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i saw that one coming with "treat," Andrew
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11-11-2002 15:29 |
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baxter
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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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11-11-2002 21:02 |
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baxter
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Applying gin to tubs, cranbr'ies, grapes, pears
Would Terry drink this swill, this bathtub gin? ...
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11-13-2002 02:14 |
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