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Unread 05-28-2019, 06:02 PM
Erik Olson Erik Olson is offline
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Default Another Rondeau Rodeo

To give credit where it is due, I need venture no further. Rondeau Redoublé, which has now also been published in an issue of Pilcrow & Dagger, has come a long way. Here, years ago, I first posted a stab at a rondeau redouble. Strangely, I resumed this most untenable and claustrophobic scheme known to rhyme and refrain, only with more resolve to see all twenty-four lines through to satisfaction (plus the hemistich). Anyway, it seems fitting that I should wind up eking more from it, having worked harder on it than I have on any other poem. Reward proportionate to toil, call it poetic justice if you like. I am grateful to you all, and then some. From the recycling heap, in fact, to Amazon.com shows these workshops pay more dividends than I ever expected. What else can I say but thank you?

Gratias.

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Unread 05-29-2019, 06:26 AM
Andrew Szilvasy Andrew Szilvasy is offline
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Erik,

That is a very difficult form to work within, and you did a nice job matching form to content. It was an enjoyable read. Congrats
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Thanks, Andrew!

You said it. I could not even tell you what drove me to twist my britches into this revolving door of a form, this seriously twisted and, outside a handful of examples, exclusively French meter. The exercise in hysteria was fun, I guess.

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Hi Erik,

Hmm. That may be my favorite poem of yours I've seen thus far, Erik. It is elegant and chilling: "We let the chamber-mouth turn things around." Congratulations on the art you have constructed here, and on the reproduction it merits.

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John
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John, thanks for the kind word! Glad that you enjoyed it. I fancy those French forms for some reason.

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