To suggest a thread written only in Iambic Pentameter?

[ethelfleda]

If you think I know how it works, you’re wrong

(I don’t know if that counts, does it?)

Piglet wins!

These are rhyming couplets though.

I may defer to Stealth on matters thus.

Rhyming couplet iambic pentameters. Nice.

Thank you @picklemewalnuts !

I knew that year-long course in Classical Acting at LAMDA would come in handy sometime. It seems that moment has finally arrived!

I’m lying eating ice cream in my bed
There’s nothing I would rather do instead

So no

At the risk of thread derailment, I also do a decent line in Limericks.

I’m hiding underneath the couch duvet.

I’ve done fuck all of use or good today.

I don't believe that we are back in school
When to suffer thus t'was the penance of a fool
For sure, we read, and write, and sing, and rhyme -
But pentameter? On Mumsnet - no time.

Derail away my dear, the floor is yours

Piglt

The limerick's a noble form of verse
So start another thread - it could be worse

This is a most fine way to start a thread
But those who cannot play might be displeased

For that same groan doth put this in my mind,
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

When I, by twisting and turning in rhyme, a humble word
Did strive to shine. I fell short of style into absurd.

I have just realised that pent means five
Oh, what a time to be alive!

(so five feet = five stressed syllables?)

Am most impressed so many did rise up
T'embrace the challenge and fulfil its terms.
'Tis not a common skill these days I feel,
When text speak is more common in this world.

I'm sorry, Piglet, I mis-spelled your name
The name's still yours, but goodness!! Mine's the shame ...

Iambic pentameter can be sang
To the theme tune of TV show Blind Date
It is a good way to remember lines
When acting in a Shakespearean play

Five stress-ed syllables must alternate
With five of lesser stress and yet make sense.

The second of the beats doth feel the weight
Or else another meter form is made.

This is the first time I have tried to write
A verse like this I hope I got it right?

I just watched Corrie now it's time for bed
I need a pillow for my sleepy head.

The thing about iambic metre is
Not everything that you might want to say
Falls nat’rally into its even pace
And so it seems quite forced and strained at times.

Lilyamna you have leapt into the breach
And perfectly fulfilled the form you seek.

Mumsnet poetry
requires a haiku. Child
hugs their cuddly.

it's basically ten syllables per line
and if they rhyme hip hip bring on the wine

I love this thread; 'tis Mumsnet at its best
We happy vipers rhyming in our nest