to the tune of FREEBIRD
if I varied my meter
would you all get pissed at me?
for I’ve too many ideas inside me
to make them rhyme consistently
in iambic pentameter
things just couldn’t be the same
cuz I’m using free verse now
with the words loosely arraigned, oh, oh, oh, oh.
and the structure gets quite strange
you’re not stuck in that old cage
sometimes doesn’t even rhyme
I used to lean on alliteration
and some well-defined scansion
I’d homogenized my syntax
into a McMansion
but if I tried to stick to couplets
things just couldn’t be the same
cuz I’m using free verse now
with the words loosely arraigned, oh, oh, oh, oh.
and the structure gets quite strange
you’re not stuck in that old cage
sometimes doesn’t even rhyme
it sometimes doesn’t even rhyme
so loosely arraigned
don’t have to rhyme in free verse, yeah
🙂
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