Hue and Cry
My first good foray into the world of poetry! Learning about poetic meter helped to hone my thoughts. Interestingly, this poem follows the Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme, but uses dactylic trimeter with masculine rhymes for the quatrains. The couplet is the traditional iambic pentameter. I like using dactylic meter because it's dramatic, especially when reading it. The stressed syllables are in bold if you want to try it!
An cient, the times , were a won derful view
Out of the dark , came a vig orous light
Dra gons were gods of the world we all knew
Roar down the fire in a fur ious sight
Re lics were left in the ash es of death
Tang ible jewels proving past deeds of war
We , of the fur , are the sons of the breath
Cap tured by heat to the land we re store
All around us , the land grows with our minds
Still to this day do we wor ship the fire
With every dawn , the light al ways un binds
Weight of the spi rit we can not ac quire
We missed the chance to see the sky
The false pre tend ers hue and cry