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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Sonnet LXXVIII

That haunting subject enters all alone.
His countersubject, following, condones,
subservient, but equal in its turns,
a contrast to the subject’s dull returns.

Each voice must state the subject loud and clear.
The previously entered stay quite near,
reciting countersubjects, then perhaps
a second one may sound, to fill the gaps.

An interlude’s between the subject’s calls.
The exposition’s done when called have all.
Then episodes, recycling all the lines;
a stretto sounds the entries one more time.

The hackneyed motives breed economy.
For fun we’ll add a tierce de Picardie.

6 comments:

  1. Wow, Mike. You can teach theory by writing sonnets. And it's amazing that you've written so many poems, I just realized that! um, does L stands for 50, or 100?

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  2. Actually nvm, I figure it out. Wholly geez, Mike! Amazing number! You have great determination and concentration. Lucky Numbers are: 1, 56, 8, 4, 27, 586, 234 (random numbers)

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  3. I could teach theory with these sonnets...*Mike dreams of world domination with his little minions (theory-infected students who read his sonnets)...*

    And wow, I like my randomly lucky numbers! *Mike tries to think of some connection, some pattern...fails...* 8 is my favourite number! :)

    And yes, 83 is a big number! Bigger than my age! ;) But I've published so many sonnets on this blog my Roman Numeral skills are like second nature! It seems just like yesterday when...I dunno. I started this blog...?

    (well, now I can karate chop my foes with my harpsichordal piano-imabic pentmater AND Roman Numeral skills...TAKE THAT FOES!!)

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  4. ROFL! Gosh, Mike, 83 really is bigger than 16? (Don't know when your b-day is, so, I'm guessing Jan. 1st) I had no idea! 83 sure is a big number!

    Oh, and I think your foes are beginning to go deaf and blind. Maybe you should make them go mute as well?

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  5. Sticking cotton balls in their mouths might help...

    You don't know my birthday?!? How could you?!? ;) It's three days from today! And in four days I'm writing Counterpoint 4 and History 5 (Beijing Olympics too!). In five days I'm writing Harmony 4! AHH! That's why I haven't written anything for a week....

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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

- Emily Dickinson

Thanks, Wordle!