Monday 18 July 2011

Endletter acrostic

trochaic pentameter, with rhymed first words (four couplets & a triplet)

Took        the cash from father’s desp’rate count u P;
Look!               he goes and spends yet soon is lone R
(Saw               his friends abandon him as coins g O).
Forty                 thousand starve as famine bites an D
Send                         for gainful work to earn denariI.
                  Endured         pains to watch the trough of wartho G
                  How                       he longed to eat their pods! Ide A:
                  Now         he humbles heart and bows to dad’s wil L. 
                  Scanned…              at distance father runs to kiss hi S
                  Hand;              adorns it (gold ring); Dad cries out ‘O

                  Band             play! Calf on spit. Alive! My dear so N!’

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