King Lear: Poetry: Sons and Daughters

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Title: Sons and Daughters
Fandom: King Lear
Rating: PG
Length: 74
Summary: A Double Reverse Etheree on the sons and daughters in King Lear
The poetry form Etheree consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables.

A father listens to artful fair words
Ignores the one who speaks from the heart
Sets in train the family fall
Sees only what he wants
Finds disdain but no love
Goneril, Regan,
Cordelia,
Lear’s daughters.
All three
Dead

Sons:
One true,
One bastard;
Gloucester’s two boys,
Edmund forced to fight
Edgar inheriting.
The father oblivious,
His mistakes discovered too late.
The betrayed demands bloody revenge
And becomes king, but at what dreadful price

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

You've introduced me to so many forms of poetry and although I don't often manage to use them in Sherlock60 they've proved really useful elsewhere. I especially seem to like using poetry when writing about Shakespeare for some reason, so having a variety of forms to choose from is great.

I'm delighted you like the way I used the etheree - it seemed to lend itself to what I wanted to say.