Oh good! This was my own little fairy tale. My mentor and teacher had a horror of rhyme and meter, and frankly it does comes too facilely. But I just had a romp with this. I'd looked up "bootless" myself not long before, and I happened to see another single shoe in the road. I've always wondered, why one shoe? One. What happened to the other shoe? What happened to the guy? Why is it always one shoe?
Which made me fantasize about somebody being snatched into an alternate universe with only one shoe. And the phrase, "bootless and half-shod" came, and the rest was easy, from there. I had a little romp with the alliteration, especially the s'es. And playing with slant and internal rhymes and wrapping lines, even from one stanza to another. It was a great exercise in poem construction. Much fun.
Also, this is my "party-piece," when asked to recite something of mine. It gets an audience hooked, they buy into the rhyme and then the story. It has its uses.
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Oh good! This was my own little fairy tale. My mentor and teacher had a horror of rhyme and meter, and frankly it does comes too facilely. But I just had a romp with this. I'd looked up "bootless" myself not long before, and I happened to see another single shoe in the road. I've always wondered, why one shoe? One. What happened to the other shoe? What happened to the guy? Why is it always one shoe?
Which made me fantasize about somebody being snatched into an alternate universe with only one shoe. And the phrase, "bootless and half-shod" came, and the rest was easy, from there. I had a little romp with the alliteration, especially the s'es. And playing with slant and internal rhymes and wrapping lines, even from one stanza to another. It was a great exercise in poem construction. Much fun.
Also, this is my "party-piece," when asked to recite something of mine. It gets an audience hooked, they buy into the rhyme and then the story. It has its uses.