Line breaks after below, know, eviction, benediction. Rhymes but doesn’t scan perfectly.
Pretty moving marker tbh. Poor souls.
Where is this?
I do!
Tread softly on this hallowed ground,Saints sleep here bellow.Clapped roughly in their six-by-two
Or a shroud who cared to know
Fever, famine, hunger pain
The workhouse harsh eviction
Poor Victims solicit for us
Gods mercy and benediction.
Took me 2 seconds to read it what’s the issue
SHOUT IT
Put emphasis on the parts you find particularly striking that’s how you can find its meaning for yourself.
For the ‘left to right’ piss-takers: getting the right rhythm when reading a poem makes all the difference. 5 years of secondary school having sonnets hammered into me and they all just droned. Then I saw [Lin Manuel Miranda reading his acceptance speech sonnet](https://youtu.be/YCbBkb8hMEk) and realised that that’s what they’re supposed to sound like. If you had a shit English teacher in school, watch the LMM video and then read “Shall I Compare Thee…” to the same rhythm and realise that teacher was even more shit than you previously thought.
I think I would use my eyes, but I suppose that’s just personal preference
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What exactly are you having trouble with?
Read from top-left to bottom-right
Read it as prose
Line breaks after below, know, eviction, benediction. Rhymes but doesn’t scan perfectly.
Pretty moving marker tbh. Poor souls.
Where is this?
I do!
Tread softly on this hallowed ground,Saints sleep here bellow.Clapped roughly in their six-by-two
Or a shroud who cared to know
Fever, famine, hunger pain
The workhouse harsh eviction
Poor Victims solicit for us
Gods mercy and benediction.
Took me 2 seconds to read it what’s the issue
SHOUT IT
Put emphasis on the parts you find particularly striking that’s how you can find its meaning for yourself.
For the ‘left to right’ piss-takers: getting the right rhythm when reading a poem makes all the difference. 5 years of secondary school having sonnets hammered into me and they all just droned. Then I saw [Lin Manuel Miranda reading his acceptance speech sonnet](https://youtu.be/YCbBkb8hMEk) and realised that that’s what they’re supposed to sound like. If you had a shit English teacher in school, watch the LMM video and then read “Shall I Compare Thee…” to the same rhythm and realise that teacher was even more shit than you previously thought.
I think I would use my eyes, but I suppose that’s just personal preference
With a pirates accent…
Manorhamilton Famine Graveyard?