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18 Nov 2009

FreeVerse: 3 Birds, 1 Meme

freeverse17Remember a few posts back when I announced the give away and mini-challenge for the Everything Austen Challenge?  And remember how for the mini-challenge I said to write a haiku (or six word story) about one of Austen’s works?  

Well, that reminded me that I have to do the poetic review for the Take a Chance Challenge, where I’m supposed to review a book in the form of a haiku, limerick, and free verse.  And THAT reminded me that there’s that meme that I do on Wednesdays thanks to Cara from Ooh Books, and it’s actually CALLED FreeVerse, and I should just take the haiku I wrote as an example and write two more poems and then I have in effect killed three birds with one meme.

Since I chose Northanger Abbey for the haiku, I’ll stick with that, and as it just so happens I just reviewed it, so it’s fresh in my mind.

Here’s my haiku again:

Bath bustles with snobs
Diff’rent dresses ev’ry night
Girl finds herself, love.

And now for my Limerick:

There once was a girl at Bath
Who went by the name of Cath
Books went to her head
She looked for the dead
Til Tilney set her right path.

And my free verse poem:

Young Catherine was a good girl, naive but pure
Her days at Bath were filled with pretty things
The people there were oft preoccupied
With wealth and gossippers and statuses

Our heroine read Radcliffe’s mysteries
Udolpho filled her mind with suspicion
Which Miss Jane Austen parodied  for mirth
But Catherine married Tilney in the end.

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2 Responses to “FreeVerse: 3 Birds, 1 Meme”

  1. Cara Powers says:
    November 18, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    I love these. I need to do a ballad based on Guy Kavriel Kay in an effort to win an ARC of his newest book. Alas, the job hunting saps my creativity.

  2. Jenners says:
    November 25, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    I love how you tied this all together …and the poems were wonderful. I always enjoy the limericks the best!

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