One for Fargo

by OceanzestHamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

Feb 2022 260 Views 4 comments

One for Fargo

I wandered by the babbling stony brook
with fishing pole and bait and shiny hook
and there I found a lake
with fish there for the take
and one, then two, then three is what I took

And there I met a strolling country girl
whose hair was formed from golden natural curls
she said lets take a chance
on old time sweet romance
I said my dear lets give this thing a whirl

Her father was a man of decent means
the farm was sewn with peas and corn and beans
then somewhere in the night
I awoke without delight
to find it all had been just pleasant dreams

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Posted: Feb 2022

About this poem:

recognise this metering FargoFan? thanks for putting up some comment on metering, I had never taken much notice of that element before, good exercise

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FargoFansydney, New South Wales AustraliaFeb 6, 2022

Also quintains as was Japanese maple, three lines of iambic pentameter plus two short lines each of three feet and a rhyme pattern of AABBA

A foot is a basic unit of measurement in poetry. It usually consists of two or three syllables. The most common feet in poetry contain either a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (trochee) or an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (iamb). There is also the dactyl as in 'Half a league half a league...' of Tennyson.

Pentameter: a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable.

OceanzestOPHamilton, Waikato New ZealandFeb 7, 2022

Thanks FF, iambic pentameter I find hard to initially get the rhythm of but when you lock in you get it huh. trochee mmmm perhaps another challenge.