# Hue and Cry

Author: PoeticOtter
Tags: Dragon, Poetry

My first good foray into the world of poetry! Learning about poetic meter helped to hone my thoughts. Interestingly, this poem follows the Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme, but uses dactylic trimeter with masculine rhymes for the quatrains. The couplet is the traditional iambic pentameter. I like using dactylic meter because it's dramatic, especially when reading it. The stressed syllables are in bold if you want to try it!

 **An** cient, the **times** , were a **won** derful  **view**  
**Out** of the **dark** , came a **vig** orous **light**  
**Dra** gons were **gods** of the **world** we all **knew**  
**Roar** down the **fire** in a **fur** ious **sight**

**Re** lics were **left** in the **ash** es of **death**  
**Tang** ible **jewels** proving **past** deeds of **war**  
**We** , of the **fur** , are the **sons** of the **breath**  
**Cap** tured by **heat** to the **land** we re **store**

**All** around **us** , the land **grows** with our **minds**  
**Still** to this **day** do we **wor** ship the **fire**  
**With** every **dawn** , the light **al** ways un **binds**  
**Weight** of the **spi** rit we **can** not ac **quire**

We **missed** the **chance** to **see** the **sky**  
The **false** pre **tend** ers **hue** and **cry**

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/AnKkpNjn