today's idle writer's thought

[magicicada]

is firth a word?

yes, i could check a dictionary, but i'm at work and trying not to get distracted. (yea, like running over to lj is a good tactic). anyways, i think it means something like earth, poetic license and all that jazz.

yes, the free verse writer is attempting a sonnet. the really scary thing is how many of my lines were already 10 syllables. scarier yet, those were the ones that 'sounded better'. ye gods, perhaps it is time i got myself some formal education on this stuff.

Comments

[songdancer.livejournal.com]

The closest I found is "turf", which isn't a precise rhyme.

(So far I've found alluvium, clay, clod, coast, compost, deposit, dirt, dry land, dust, fill, glebe, gravel, humus, land, loam, marl, mold, muck, mud, peat moss, sand, shore, sod, soil, subsoil, surface, terra firma, terrain, terrane, topsoil, turf)

[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

damn, that is an exact match to what i needed. however, i already changed it to 'forth' and then changed the entire line several times to fix meaning.

here we go:
Bare travesties of branches span the breadth, (10)
Revealing the strength of their roots, of earth. (10)
Each thing becomes again its finest self. (10)
Earth's bounty again is shuddering forth, (10)

i think earth and forth are somewhat warped rhymes, but for a vers libre poet, it will do.