{"id":901,"date":"2025-10-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=901"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:11:00","slug":"oct-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Oct 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today’s Inktober is Ornate and that felt right for a sonnet. What am I doing to myself. We’ll try Petrarchan this time; ABBA ABBA CDC DCD.
(note from future me: This still isn’t exactly iambic pentameter, honestly. Some of them are dactyls; ie, one stressed, two unstressed. Like “grand-<\/em>fa-ther” or “whis-<\/em>per-ing.” Others are iambs. But mostly it’s a little irregular. I suppose that’s something for the edit. I kind of like the rhythm of it though; it fits with the theme so if I do edit it, it’ll be to punch that tick-tock up some more.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay I have a topic guide and a structure, now I need something ornate and… the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Segmented Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The grandfather clock is ticking the time
It splits the days into minutes, hours;
Out in the front of the hall it towers,
Whispering “You live your days to my rhyme.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come hear its sonorous echoing chime;
See its etched moon and its sun and its flow’rs
Moved ’round the face by its pendulous pow’rs,
Ripening days from their youth to their prime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So pass our days with the tick of the clock,
Times marked for work and for play and for sleep,
We must make time to relax and take stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we in gears and in cogwork too deep?
Can we push seconds and minutes to dock,
Lest we let clockwork become what we reap?
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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