WHY, ASKS A FRIEND, ATTEMPT TETRAMETER? (GOLDEN GATE 5.4) - Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Poems

 
 

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WHY, ASKS A FRIEND, ATTEMPT TETRAMETER? (GOLDEN GATE 5.4)
Why, asks a friend, attempt tetrameter?
Because it once was noble, yet
Capers before the proud pentameter,
Tyrant of English. I regret
To see this marvelous swift meter
Deamean its heritage, and peter
Into mere Hudibrastic tricks,
Unapostolic knacks and knicks.
But why take all this quite so badly?
I would not, had I world and time
To wait for reason, rhythm, rhyme,
To reassert themselves, but sadly,
The time is not remote when I
Will not be here to wait. That's why.

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