Housepets: Iambic Pent-Up Peanut
Fanfiction is in semi-rhyming iambic pentameter. this is an exercise in "owletron, just because it's hard to do doesn't make it a good idea!" i apologize in advance. enjoy the ride.edit: here is a link to the art that come out of the conversation below.
The Holy Mountain of Vengeance
#4 of poetry dactylic pentameter (i think that's the correct classification for this?) is really good for doing a mythology in.
Quiet and Deep
It was a much more casual relationship than in more modern times. 2) in the manner of shakespeare, this story's dialog is written in iambic pentameter, meant to flow in a lyrical manner.
A Far Green Country
How often have I dreamed of such a place? How often have I seen those emerald fields, And in that dream, forgotten that I dreamed, That I would wake, had woken, and my life Dissolved into a peaceful deja vu That cannot be remembered? I can...
Ghost of the Western Cretaceous Sea
You look around you and you see the peaks. You see the pine heights and the softer trees That flower on the lower, lesser steeps. You see the little rivers, shire-wise, That gently carve the foothills. And the sweep At last of desert floor....
Obituary Instructions
Do not call me an angel, when I'm gone. Mourn me, revere me--or not, as you choose-- But as the human person that I was. An angel is a pure celestial thing Too absolute and too ethereal For earthly things like woe or weariness, For home and...
Ragnarok - XV
The short pithy statements and interruptions still fitting into the iambic pentameter is profoundly satisfying.
My Little Mashup 14 - Back Toward the Future
._ after a pause, she said, "i'd expect pentameter from a place like this, not vulgar tetrameter." i cracked. "that's odd - to me, it began to form something like what you read, but now it just says 'bite me'."
Blank Verse Essay On the Treachery of Hope
You must learn how to live and not to hope For hope will be a luxury ere long. For hope can be both manacle and chain. For hope can keep you too spellbound to run Until the waters rise too high, and boil. You would not be the first. In ages...
Either Your God Hates Me Or Your Religion Doesn't Work
If you are queer, and still hold to some faith Of whatsoever christian sect, then I Have no desire to undermine with doubt What must remain a precious source of strength, And must have been most difficult to keep. So please do not regard what I...
Ragnarok - Epilogue
So ends the tale of Shane the Champion. Of his blood-brother, Varr the Last-to-Flee. Of Klau the Berserker, called the Blacksword. Of the Old Man, who some hold was a god. Of the lost Witchfolk, and their young Lady Who solely of her people is not...
Ragnarok - XXVII
Somewhere it was autumn. On the shore Wind-kissed and smelling of soft salt there stood But three alone. The sighing pines atop The dunes were the last trees to wear their leaves. Somewhere it was evening. Heavy clouds Were crimson painted...