Apophasis - a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up
An exercise in Villonet (a cross between a villanelle and a sonnet)
I mixed a few of the rhyme scheme patte
A hostile and accusatory claim,
Maligning me, insulting my good name.
A thing like that from me you’ll never hear.
My enemy is not the one to fear.
I cannot tear him down with words unkind.
If you believe, you may have lost your mind,
That I should utter maledictions here.
Now listen close, and lend me your good ear
So I may tell you what you need to know.
They’re not a crook or thief, so let it go!
A thing like that from me you’ll never hear.
That I should utter maledictions here,
To wipe my competition from the field:
A thing like that from me you’ll never hear...
Poetry by Ducks
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Written on 2021-06-18 at 11:56
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An exercise in Villonet (a cross between a villanelle and a sonnet)
I mixed a few of the rhyme scheme patte
Apophasis
That I should utter maledictions here:A hostile and accusatory claim,
Maligning me, insulting my good name.
A thing like that from me you’ll never hear.
My enemy is not the one to fear.
I cannot tear him down with words unkind.
If you believe, you may have lost your mind,
That I should utter maledictions here.
Now listen close, and lend me your good ear
So I may tell you what you need to know.
They’re not a crook or thief, so let it go!
A thing like that from me you’ll never hear.
That I should utter maledictions here,
To wipe my competition from the field:
A thing like that from me you’ll never hear...
Poetry by Ducks
Read 290 times
Written on 2021-06-18 at 11:56
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