Ponyville & Other Poems

by AugieDog

2 - A Sonnet by Twilight Sparkle

For reasons I have yet to understand,
My love of poetry elicits shock
Among my friends! As if it's far too grand
For one who lives her life by list and clock!

But, oh, how mathematical its flow,
Its stately step of syllable and rhyme!
Enclosed within its shell but all aglow,
A poem tickles fate and jousts with time!

Precise as any proof, its measurements
Cannot exceed the space it's been assigned,
But through the rules that force it to condense,
It bursts with thought, all strictures undermined!

Exploding soundlessly upon the page,
Ideas in a poem never age!

Author's Note:

Everybody knows how to build a sonnet, right? Still, the article on Wikipedia can offer a refresher course to all and sundry.

Comments

[Marcibel]

Well done in keeping in iambic pentameter.

[AugieDog]

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Thanks!

I can just see Twilight's glinting grin the first time she read all the rules and regulations for writing a sonnet...

Mike

[Blue_Paladin42]

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I never really considered that before, but...
It's literature with a strict ruleset! It was practically made for her!

[AugieDog]

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All the fixed verse forms:

Would appeal to her for this reason, I figured, but the sonnet seems to me to have the most barnacles on it as far as regulations go. A lot of the other verse forms I'm using in this collection give you a rhyme scheme, but not a rhythm pattern, so I'm, of course, making up additional rules for them that I then hafta follow. Because that's my idea of fun!

Mike

[Lurks-no-More]

Ah, the sonnet: the checklist of poems!

[AugieDog]

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For extra credit, then:

You try to use polysyllabic words at the beginning and end of as many lines as possible. Conservation of verbiage, I believe Twilight would call it...

Mike

[blank check]

I love fixed-form poetry so much. I've written around four notebook pages for an epic poem that shall never be made. It was in tribute to Dwarf Fortress, actually. Inspired by the form of the Canterbury Tales. Too bad the CT is illegible now.

This sonnet is beautiful. 'Twould that poetry could blush, it would.

[AugieDog]

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Thanks!

I've got a Pony mini-epic on the site here, too--an epyllion, if you will--called "The Laughter and the Night" if you're interested in that sort of thing...

Sonnets will always my favorite of the fixed forms. My current plan is to give Spike a Petrarchan one at the end of this collection, actually!

Mike

[Otterbee]

So many words ("i-de-as, po-em, po-et-ry") that MUST BE PRONOUNCED VERY CAREFULLY AND SYLLABLE BY SYLLABLE AND NOT IN THE COMMON WAY or it breaks the meter! How quintessentially Twilight Sparkle!

[AugieDog]

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I'm betting:

Twilight would be more than happy to conduct a lecture series on the importance of proper pronunciation to all aspect of daily life. In fact, I'll bet she's got the notes for it already made up.

Mike

[predatornc]

*claps*

[AugieDog]

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Thanks!

This stuff is just too much fun!

Mike

[PresentPerfect]

I identify with this poem so much.

[AugieDog]

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I just really like:

The idea of "Twilight Sparkle, Secret Fixed-Form Poetry Fan." Tell no one!

Mike

[Lucky Star 33094]

Awesome