<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568392" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Parody Of John Keats 'On The Sonnet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Parody to follow, but first, the real deal sonnet by John Keats,1819...<br>----------…<br>John Keats sonnet.....'On the Sonnet'...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If by dull rhymes our English must be chained, <br>And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet<br>Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness; <br>Let us find out, if we must be constrained, <br>Sandals more interwoven and complete<br>To fit the naked foot of poesy; <br>Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress<br>Of every chord, and see what may be gained<br>By ear industrious, and attention meet; <br>Misers of sound and syllable, no less<br>Than Midas of his coinage, let us be<br>Jealous of dead leaves in the bay-wreath crown; <br>So, if we may not let the Muse be free, <br>She will be bound with garlands of her own.<br>----------…<br>My parody.....'On Rhyme and Money'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If by dull rhyme our fortune's attained, <br>let us speak, shout, seek, complete with all pain<br>tomorrow's journey to our bank account.<br>Ignore that woman chained by wisdom's fount.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was she not acclaimed in her day and time? <br>Her eternal beauty bought for a dime<br>from every passing vendor. How vane! <br>Her shame, wanting blonde tresses. Brunette's bane! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forlorn, forsworn, we apply merely base<br>words, structure, to the poetics of haste.<br>And, all meaning wanting, we write cheap<br>nonsensical verse, all rhyming replete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We of beggars' free verse stand time's testing, <br>penniless, but with no gods are jesting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elysabeth+Faslund">Elysabeth Faslund</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568392" data-title="Parody Of John Keats 'On The Sonnet de Elysabeth Faslund" data-description="Parody to follow, but first, the real deal sonnet by John Keats,1819... ----------… John Keats sonnet.....'On the Sonnet'... If by dull rhymes our English must be chained, And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet Fettered, in spite of painéd lov..."></div> </div> </div>

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