…This was an aforementioned experiment in mixing fanciful metaphor with a very simple one or two word per line sonnet framework. Perhaps a sciencey way to go about the task, I will admit; but very enjoyable to write–probably some lucasing (or should I say disneying) yet to come.
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You may, my dear pirate, find this interesting, as well: Traffic fatalities go up wherever seat belt laws are enacted–as do, by the way, non fatal accidents as well.
It does not mean what we think it means, however. It doesn’t mean that belting somehow kills people. However, The fact remains that a well secured driver is less likely to die when an incident occurs.
However, Bayes’ theorem also predicts this peculiar statistic as well. Continue reading
This morning…
…regarding the introduction to this mornings post: Originally this was not written as a double or triple entendre, although, it clearly may be taken as such. I would venture a guess that anyone would be hard pressed to determine the original subject of this piece.
I have realized that todays…
entry is part of the last series. And I thought, last evening to bring the other one forward, so I swapped it with the entry that was on the 29 of October, which now, I believe is somewhere around August 17th–just now I cannot remember exactly. Although this evening, I shall re-investigate.
A Supernova Exploded
This was very nice. I thought I’d write a sonnet from this–I do love the outer reaches so.
Writing about the beauty of the human form…
…is a very enjoyable pursuit. I do quite a lot of it, however not so much in sonnet form. I’ve endeavored to rectify that with this mornings offering.
This morning’s offering…
…(seen here) will probably be lucased to a greater or lesser degree (but more likely, greater) for a week or so. The constraints on it were a bit of a challenge; therefore, a word or two (or three) will–or, at least, might–continue to change every so often; as I stated, probably for a week–maybe more.
It was inspired by this post, and by a discussion on and around it, among other things.
This one has a different rhymescheme, also: abba abbab cdcdc. The extra “b” rhyme seemed appropriate considering the offering as a whole.
Today’s sonnet was written in a different way–much different than the way in which I usually write.
1) The subject was chosen in advance.
2) The first letters of each line spell something.
3) There is a slightly unorthodox rhymescheme–modified Italian.
4) Both these starting letters and the ending rhyme words were chosen in advance, not completely at random, but not especially carefully either. I picked rhyming classes from among well known groups of words, and I avoided words that had a “silly” character, and/or a character which was, out of character, so to speak, for the piece.
5) Only after all these elements were in place did I get down to composing the piece.
I did enjoy that process very much, and it kept me from writing something that was too concrete sounding–less like a scientist and more like and artist, I suppose one might say.
David Emeron: Sonnets 