I spent a sleepless night, (worrying about whether Dick would find the enter reply button), and line after line of Gwynn's pentameter precis of entire plays kept coming to me. I've not committed the poem to memory, so that's memorable speech. Sam delights, as do we all, in "found pentameters." One year at West Chester he went to a student bulletin board and jotted down several funny ones. Five years ago Tim Steele lectured here on the centrality of the pentameter in our speech, and gave us these:
I'm sorry, but my paper will be late.
I really think I should have had an "A."
You haven't kissed me since we got engaged.
Sam has by no means sent us his best sonnet, just the one I wheedled out of him to launch this discussion. This and the others may all be found in No Word of Farewell, Story Line Press.
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