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[jgdittier]

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First a letter, then a word
and now a sentence thought...
Has in fact a start occurred
from which some verse be wrought?

Once a stanza now be writ
let's locate das and dums.
Slash and dash a form, be it.
When filled it sings, it strums.

Rhyme?, it must, if j g d's.
A scheme be now assigned.
Vow, must I, I'll them appease
or I shall be maligned.

Yore's the time I must promote,
our taste today will fade.
Milton, make this boat to float
Don't rain on my parade.

Windmills may be ready ploys
for questers just like me.
Poems come from men, not boys.
You may, or not, agree.



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[JustDaniel]

Ron and Don,

please know that neither of you are getting any criticism from me.  I'm in the same boat, but I need a bit of edumacation here, it seems:

I don't know what the difference is between

troche, troche, troche, monosyllable
and
monosyllable, iamb, iamb, iamb

To me they seem exactly the same thing... but that's probably becasue I have never been educated in poetry either.  In fact, until about three years ago, I didn't even know what an iamb was!

Iamb more ignorant than most
about the verse I love
and anything that I could boast
comes from the One above.

And Don's 'exception' in line 19 comes from his taking 'Poems' to be one syllable, while Ron and I read it as having two, methinks.

If I were writing in the pattern that you have written here, Ron, sharing the very way in which you write your poetry ( rather similar to the origin of many of my own poems, I might add! ), I might share something like this:

Mary had a thing for lambs
that many didn't konw;
Ron, however, loves iambs,
as anyone can show.

Trochee's tricky; it can trip
or sound like nurs'ry rhyme
joined this way with iamb chips
hand-dipped in wry and thyme.

So...

on my further read, as expected, I do appreciate your revelations here in perfect meter and rhyme.  I was just tripped up by the pattern on my first read.  Unless I were writing something intentionally sing-songish, I'd likely not write in this pattern.  I think you've created here what I've done on several occasions myself:  written a serious piece with a serious bit o' cheek on your tongue.

Gotta love it!

deLightingly, Daniel  

P.S.  I'm surprised to learn that both of you are older than this old dude.  I was born in 1945 -- 60 this coming October.