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An Excercise in Style: Arthurian

September 2, 2019
By ethanstephan SILVER, Novato, California
ethanstephan SILVER, Novato, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Ay, there's the rub." -Hamlet


At midday on a shuttle of S, sat silently a man.


Atop his hat wrapped a rope, not a ribbon he wore.


Anger chimed from this chap, by a chivalrous young fellow.


Then he seized a seat, a spot in which he’s content.


In 120 minutes meandering, the man in gare I saw.


With another cat he conversates, contemplating a button.


The author's comments:

Written here is my personal take on the base story from Raymond Queneau's An Excercise in Style. I've chosen to replicate Thomas Malory's consonant stress formula of xx/xy for every sentence, resulting in a structural recreation of Alliterative Morte Arthure's poetry so that it can be "Arthurian". 


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