Exercise (3) in Messr. Fry's "The Ode Less Travelled."
Enjambment & Caesura (2). Write 5 blank iambic pentameter couplets, first without and then with.
(1) Something right outside your window.
The porch light reaches out into the night
The maple casts a shadow on the street
The maple casts a shadow on the street
The maple swoons. It bleeds it's shadow on
The street, stabbed by the porch light in the night.
The street, stabbed by the porch light in the night.
(2) Something you'd like to eat right now.
Some Mac and cheese with bread crumbs baked on top
And after coffee ice cream with mint chip.
The palate singed, burnt by the bubbling Mac
And cheese, is soothed and cooled by frozen cream.
And cheese, is soothed and cooled by frozen cream.
(3) A recent dream.
Forgotten class, exams are nearly here,
Awakened in a pool of slimy sweat.
Awakened in a pool of slimy sweat.
Forgotten class, A dream of school that leaves
Me full of fear and unprepared for tests.
Me full of fear and unprepared for tests.
(4) Pesky tasks overdue.
The tax return waits to be checked and filed
The trash exceeds the volume of the can.
Cannot decide. To check and file the tax
Return, or empty out the garbage can.
The trash exceeds the volume of the can.
Cannot decide. To check and file the tax
Return, or empty out the garbage can.
(5) My body.
Some belly flab and ears that do not match.
Both arches fallen and no muscle tone.
My body's faults, some belly flab and ears
That do not match, but which of them is worse?
Both arches fallen and no muscle tone.
My body's faults, some belly flab and ears
That do not match, but which of them is worse?
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