WILDTHYME ON TOP

NOTE ON THE BLURB

In keeping with the story's Shakespearean theme, the online blurb to ‘Minions of the Moon’ is a shakespearean sonnet. It consists of four quatrains and a final couplet, all in iambic pentameter, and with an overall rhyme scheme of the pattern ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

The following layout may make this clearer:


Miss Iris Wildthyme’s jaunts through time and space
With her friend Tom have left them both well-versed
In history’s vagaries. But when they face
The sight of Queen Elizabeth the First
Welcoming ‘envoys from the lunar sphere’
Into her court, the pair are at a loss.
It may be history itself is near
Collapse, but Iris couldn’t give a toss.
The old Queen needs a mentor (and chauffeur)
For England’s delegation to the Moon –
And Iris learns the satellite is her
And Tom’s idea of Heaven. Pretty soon
She’s out carousing and, well, partying
Her socks off. She may even get to sing...

I have a feeling there’s a specific name for the literary technique of presenting poetry as prose, but I can’t find it anywhere.

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