{"id":31070,"date":"2023-05-25T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31070"},"modified":"2023-05-25T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:52:02","slug":"spotted-in-the-wild-an-acrostic-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/25\/spotted-in-the-wild-an-acrostic-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted in the Wild: An Acrostic Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, in school, in poetry units, the teachers always brought up the Acrostic poem form where the first letter of each word spells something else. I didn’t think they were a thing but rather an easy poetry type to grade (like haikus, where you just have to count the syllables and not judge content).<\/p>\n

But apparently, Keats wrote at least one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats<\/b><\/p>\n

Give me your patience, sister, while I frame
\nExact in capitals your golden name;
\nOr sue the fair Apollo and he will
\nRouse from his heavy slumber and instill
\nGreat love in me for thee and Poesy.
\nImagine not that greatest mastery
\nAnd kingdom over all the Realms of verse,
\nNears more to heaven in aught, than when we nurse
\nAnd surety give to love and Brotherhood.<\/p>\n

Anthropophagi in Othello’s mood;
\nUlysses storm’d and his enchanted belt
\nGlow with the Muse, but they are never felt
\nUnbosom’d so and so eternal made,
\nSuch tender incense in their laurel shade
\nTo all the regent sisters of the Nine
\nAs this poor offering to you, sister mine.<\/p>\n

Kind sister! aye, this third name says you are;
\nEnchanted has it been the Lord knows where;
\nAnd may it taste to you like good old wine,
\nTake you to real happiness and give
\nSons, daughters and a home like honied hive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, I’ve picked up the collection of the complete works of Keats and Shelley that I’ve been working on for at least four years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas oddsmakers are evenly split whether I will complete this book or The Story of Civilization<\/em> first. To be honest, I’d take the latter. And as far as the over\/under goes, eight years might be the way to bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, in school, in poetry units, the teachers always brought up the Acrostic poem form where the first letter of each word spells something else. I didn’t think they were a thing but rather an easy poetry type to grade (like haikus, where you just have to count the syllables and not judge content). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31071,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070\/revisions\/31071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}