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lastmod: "2021-09-12T22:47:44.0000000+01:00"
author: patrick
categories:
- creative
comments: true
date: "2014-02-16T00:00:00Z"
aliases:
- /creative/rage-rage-against-the-poets-hardest-sell/
- /rage-rage-against-the-poets-hardest-sell/
title: Rage, rage against the poet’s hardest sell
---
I feel that I can write a sonnet well.  
While sonnets are an easy thing to spout,  
It’s really hard to write a villanelle.

By rhyming, any story I can tell:  
in couplets, rhyme and rhythm evens out.  
I feel that I can write a sonnet well.

But alternately-structured verse is hell.  
The poet struggles, juggles words about:  
It’s really hard to write a villanelle.

Enthusiasm’s difficult to quell.  
An acolyte of Shakespeare, I’m devout:  
I feel that I can write a sonnet well.

But triplets are a task on which I dwell,  
I’m running out of rhymes, without a doubt.  
It’s really hard to write a villanelle.

For sonnets, you don’t have to be [Kal-El][1]  
to make a super stanza just work out.  
I feel that I can write a sonnet well;  
It’s really hard to write a villanelle.

 [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman "Superman Wikipedia page"