Royal Rhyme -- Anything Goes

a-b-a-b-b-c-c

Orchestra center, row "E"

Find number one hundred twelve

Second seat in, that suits me

Tickets, will call, they unshelve

Where is this going, let's delve

Anything Goes is our test

Little theatre, the best

 

 

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I'm linked today with the Real Toads, Fireblossom Friday

 

Instructions were: Today we're going to try the Rhyme Royal. It's pretty simple, really. 

- The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. You can write seven-line stanzas, or you can break it up as a tercet and two couplets.

- You can stop with seven lines, or repeat your pattern for as many stanzas as you like, making the Rhyme Royal a fine vehicle for narrative poetry. There is no syllable count, and although the Rhyme Royal is often written in iambic pentameter, we're not bothering with that today. Just follow the rhyme scheme and one of the seven line patterns I have laid out above. (I did follow syllable count, each of my lines has seven syllables.)

 

- Tonight we visited our Crighton Theatre in Conroe (Texas) to watch Cole Porter's stage play Anything Goes.  It was written in 1934 and produced in the old 1934 theater.  It was a great production with excellent singing and dancing.