So do I now with pride at last begin <br />My poem that forever shall be known <br />As number five hundred of those within <br />This crop of mostly sonnets I have sown. <br />My strajnge desire to use this special form <br />Was first apparent as I then compiled <br /> <br />A speech to be quite different from the norm: <br />To that aim I was wed and reconciled. <br />Maybe because as I recall that speech <br />Attraced much applause, and many fell <br />About in fits of laughter as they each <br />Then struggled with the strange iambic spell. <br /> <br />That form of verse that Shakespeare made his own <br />Has grown the finest crop that I have known.<br /><br />Eric Bult<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lambic-pentameter/
