Poetic Licence in High Heels?
I've rewritten the word "stayeth" as "stay'th" in one of my Miltonic sonnets so that it might rhyme with "faith":
"Now choose / Life" from the Tree of Life and live by faith . . . / Though grace hath promised that she ever stay'th . . .Clever, eh? Or would you need to see the entire sonnet? You've already seen it sometime back, if you're a regular reader.
But you would need to make the little readjustment . . .
. . . in heels.
Labels: Rhymes
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:38 AM
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4 Comments:
Is "poetic license in high heels" like "nonsense on stilts"?
Nonsense!
Jeffery Hodges
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I wonder, is it time to re-gender Milton in revised texts that don't offend the sophisticated sensibilities of contemporary students?
Or a Marxist investigation of the mill town whence his ancestors came.
Jeffery Hodges
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