A Slightly-Bardic Discussion

[Sunegami]

I need everyone's help.

I have to find a poem to memorize in 3 weeks for my Creative Writing class (for art college: vivat! whee ). Are there any SCA-related (or even good medieval) poems I could try? The only requirement is that it must have at least 14 lines.

::seats herself and awaits everyone's suggestions::  

[musicman3672]

14 lines, Eh? Sounds like a sonnet is in order! I've always found sonnets to be fairly easy, predictable rhyme and rhythm structure always helps with memorization. However, having said that, I'm afraid I, heh, don't remember any! If I think of anything, I'll let you know, but at least you have something to think about for now.  

[Sunegami]

Yeah, I should've made that clear in my original post: I'd rather not use a sonnet if I can help it.

It's really too obvious, and I've gone with The Bard so many times for memorization projects in high school that it's become almost too easy (and slightly dull, in my opinion sweatdrop ).

I was actually considering using the lyrics to "The March of Cambreadth" (see what you've started, ZellyKat? heart whee ).

Wouldn't that sound cool: a little spit of a woman repeatedly chanting "How many of them can we make die?"! xd  

[Not-So-Sweet Transvestite]

*digs for bard book*

Aha! M'lady, are you familiar with the World of Christopher Robin? In it are some of my favorite Medieval-themed poems, for who loves knights and ladies more than a little boy?

Quote:

Knights and Ladies
by A.A. Milne

There is in my old picture-book
A page at which I like to look,
Where knights and squires come riding down
The cobbles of some steep old town,
And ladies from beneath the eaves
Flutter their bravest handkerchiefs,
Or, smiling proudly, toss down gages...
But that was the Middle Ages.
It wouldn't happen now; but still,
Whenever I look up the hill
Where, dark against the green and blue,
The firs come marching, two by two,
I wonder if perhaps I might
See suddenly a shining knight
Winding his way from blue to green-
Exactly as it would have been
Those many, many years ago...

Perhaps I might. You never know.

I think this expresses perfectly the sort of people who make up the SCA.

If you don't mind one a bit longer, The Knight Whose Armor Didn't Sqeak is also wonderful.  

[Sunegami]

squire to fools

*digs for bard book*

Aha! M'lady, are you familiar with the World of Christopher Robin? In it are some of my favorite Medieval-themed poems, for who loves knights and ladies more than a little boy?

Quote:

Knights and Ladies
by A.A. Milne

There is in my old picture-book
A page at which I like to look,
Where knights and squires come riding down
The cobbles of some steep old town,
And ladies from beneath the eaves
Flutter their bravest handkerchiefs,
Or, smiling proudly, toss down gages...
But that was the Middle Ages.
It wouldn't happen now; but still,
Whenever I look up the hill
Where, dark against the green and blue,
The firs come marching, two by two,
I wonder if perhaps I might
See suddenly a shining knight
Winding his way from blue to green-
Exactly as it would have been
Those many, many years ago...

Perhaps I might. You never know.

I think this expresses perfectly the sort of people who make up the SCA.

If you don't mind one a bit longer, The Knight Whose Armor Didn't Sqeak is also wonderful.

I have that book! I used to read it all the time when I was younger!

Now if only I can remember where I put it. . . thank you, m'lord, for the "reminder"!  

[Sunegami]

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