{"id":382582,"date":"2023-01-03T06:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=382582"},"modified":"2023-01-03T06:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T20:06:40","slug":"seasonal-sonnet-parodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/seasonal-sonnet-parodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Sonnet Parodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ll be a Poem for Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be a poem for Christmas<br \/>\nYou can count my syllables for free<br \/>\nAll I want for Christmas is free verse poetry<br \/>\nDashes in a row, ballads by Batbon ring<br \/>\nA poem I already am, don\u2019t need poetry slam<br \/>\nOver the verses and through the words<br \/>\nTo some Sonnet sensibility we go<br \/>\nMy verse knows the way to show the play<br \/>\nThat seasonal song wordsmithing brings<br \/>\nAdjectives we have heard on high<br \/>\nSome Adverbial phrases all in a row<br \/>\nOh poem just right, rhymes are brightly shining<br \/>\nIt is a night for merriment and mirth<br \/>\nWriting a poetic piece with worth<br \/>\nSinglesounds singlesounds doubled up by me<br \/>\nOh what fun the sonnets done! sings Joey Connolly.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Try and find these songs and lines parodied above:<br \/>\n1. I\u2019ll be home for Xmas,<br \/>\n2. All I want for Xmas is my my two front teeth<br \/>\n3.Dashing through the snow\u2026 bells on bobtails ring<br \/>\n4. Over the river and through the woods to grandmother\u2019s house we go, my horse knows<br \/>\nthe way<br \/>\n5.Angels we have heard on high<br \/>\n6.Oh holy night, the stars are brightly shining<br \/>\n7. Jingle bells, jingle bells,  oh what fun it is to ride.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonnet Night, Syllables to Write<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sonnet night, some syllables to write<br \/>\nBlue ink flows on paper so white<br \/>\nAround the parody poetry flows<br \/>\nNew holiday verses nobody knows<br \/>\nSome punny rhymes some funny prose<br \/>\nPlenty of paper there is no dearth<br \/>\nPoems full of merriment and mirth<br \/>\nHere comes Subjunctive Clause<br \/>\nHere comes Independent Clause<br \/>\nI\u2019m dreaming of a Write Christmas<br \/>\nWith all the happy rhymes I know<br \/>\nWith not a good rhyme missing<br \/>\nAnd people actually read and listen<br \/>\nTo hear some poetry read by Joe.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Try and find these songs and lines parodied above:<br \/>\n1. Silent Night<br \/>\n2.Here Comes Santa Claus<br \/>\n3. I&#8217;m Dreaming of a White Christmas&#8230;where treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be a Poem for Christmas I\u2019ll be a poem for Christmas You can count&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8819,7113],"class_list":["post-382582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-silent-night","tag-white-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}