Mercury Rising Darn Right

I’ve been experimenting with short line forms for the lyric lately.

Yesterday’s poem was another such test. It’s simply iambic pentameter lines split in two. I like the energy it lends to the lines as well as the initiative it presents in ridding them of any slackness that may be there. A short line demands strict attention.

The poem, if written in pentameter lines, would be two, what I like to call, “Dylanesque Sestets,” that particular form having a rhyme scheme of ABCBDD.

I like playing with such simple forms. And I love naming them. I’m calling this double Dylanesque Sestet with split pentameter lines a “Blonde on Blonde” after Dylan’s great album, which has a “wild mercurial sound” according to Bob.

That description is my goal with this form.

PS On another note, I’m looking forward to reading Chapter 4. Fraud is a pretty strong word.