okay, English majors
May. 28th, 2005 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaiden Sluts are only human. By a quirk
Of unastonished nature, your obscene
Decaying figure of vegetable fun
Can drag a woman's heart, as though
Heaven were dragging up the roots of hell.
What is to be done? Something compels us into
The terrible fallacy that man is desirable
And there's no escaping into truth. The crimes
And cruelties leave us longing, and campaigning
Love still pitches his tent of light among
The suns and moons. You may be decay and a platitude
Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.
You may be as corrupt as ancient apples, well then
Corruption is what I most willingly harvest.
You are Evil, Hell, the Father of Lies; if so
Hell is my home, and my days of good were a holiday:
Hell is my hill and the world slopes away from it
Into insignificance. I have come suddenly
Upon my heart and where it is I see no help for.
is the above considered blank verse? and if it isn't, what is it? (besides an excerpt from The Lady's Not for Burning)
BTW, M&C, the internet says that iambic pentameter is a member of the set blank verse, but that not all blank verse is iambic pentameter. if you were trying to convey that earlier, i didn't get it.
Edited for the pedantic.
Of unastonished nature, your obscene
Decaying figure of vegetable fun
Can drag a woman's heart, as though
Heaven were dragging up the roots of hell.
What is to be done? Something compels us into
The terrible fallacy that man is desirable
And there's no escaping into truth. The crimes
And cruelties leave us longing, and campaigning
Love still pitches his tent of light among
The suns and moons. You may be decay and a platitude
Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.
You may be as corrupt as ancient apples, well then
Corruption is what I most willingly harvest.
You are Evil, Hell, the Father of Lies; if so
Hell is my home, and my days of good were a holiday:
Hell is my hill and the world slopes away from it
Into insignificance. I have come suddenly
Upon my heart and where it is I see no help for.
is the above considered blank verse? and if it isn't, what is it? (besides an excerpt from The Lady's Not for Burning)
BTW, M&C, the internet says that iambic pentameter is a member of the set blank verse, but that not all blank verse is iambic pentameter. if you were trying to convey that earlier, i didn't get it.
Edited for the pedantic.
