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Edited by Patricia Stammers, Thursday, 3 Oct 2013, 15:47

Re; local poem Competition

The A215 tutor advised using a strict poetic measure. So - I used the Shakesperian sonnet form and added eight lines. The rhyming couplet at the end of lines thirteen and fourteen makes a pleasing variation I hope. Otherwise the poem is trad. with homely imagery. I did not want to annoy the reader with vulgarity or bore them with introverted agonies.

First three lines as follows;

Of flint and stone the Chapel of Ease

with doorway defined in the booklet

as gothic, is shaded with chestnut trees.

 

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