Homework W/E June 6: The Dedicated Rhymer

[David Campbell]

The Dedicated Rhymer

My favourite thingies are metre and rhyme,
and poems without them are simply a crime!
So I always use good metre,
(Bloody hell, what rhymes with metre?)
but maybe not the same one all the time!

All that free verse stuff is rubbish,
lots of ah…um…dum-de-ubbish,
and I’ll never make that leap into the dark.
Though across the globe they’re writing it,
it’s not needed and I’m fighting it;
it’s as useless as a duck without a…quark?

So get used to it, you peasants!
Like fine dining goes with pheasants
I am wedded to the good old metric foot.
I’m a dedicated rhymer
and a zealous paradigmer…
though it sometimes means that words are backwards put!

© David 25/05/16

[Neville Briggs]

You're a wicked man David

[Catherine Lee]

Very good David - thanks for the smile!

[Shelley Hansen]

Superb, David! I'm working on a response for my homework piece ... watch this space

Cheers
Shelley

[David Campbell]

"Wicked" doesn't scratch the surface, Neville. This is the censored version!

Glad you enjoyed it, Catherine, and thanks, Shelley...I'm watching the space.

Cheers
David

[Wendy Seddon]

Love words being 'backward put', Sometimes it's the only way!

[Shelley Hansen]

Apologies in advance for this, David - but I simply can't resist!!

"Bloody hell! What rhymes with metre?"
My response could not be fleeter
lest your poetry should peter
out and you’d be forced to beat a
path downtown in your four-seater
to the bookstore where a neater
row of books might be the key ter
finding words that rhyme with metre.

So I poured a Margarita
put my CD on “repeater”
and for brain food tried to eat a
dish of sardines by the litre
but on Google search I teeter
searching Facebook scrolling Tweeter
yet I still cannot complete a
single word to rhyme with metre!

[Wendy Seddon]

Shelley - you cheater!!

[David Campbell]

Classic!

[Maureen K Clifford]

I like backward put rhymes and Shelley that is a classic response.

as useless as a duck without a…quark?

It crossed my mind to ask why a duck would need soft cheese David - but I am sure you have a reasonable explanation.

Clever use of the prompts you have made here Thinking outside the set paradigms