Topic and form

[Mike Baker]

To fine-tune the concept, if I may presume:
Might we consider adjusting the subject line of messages participating, or 
perhaps inserting a first line of the message body, along the lines of

Topic: Honor  Form: ABAB (Quatrain)

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 mary k cummings offered the following <minor snippage in quoted area>:
> For the topic:  Honor
> And the form:   A B C B
>           Or
>         A B A B
> An example of the sort of thing I'd personally like to see is:
>    Wonderlust burns bright as love
>    When autumn crisps the air
>    Fading dim when skies above
>    Are grey with winter's stare.

An excellent example of the form, by my expectations, and certainly seems to 
"set the mood" for the remainder of the song that you hinted at. (Yer cruel, 
lassie, not to give us more than the chorus!)  Poetic language -- it's in 
there.  Adherence to rhyme scheme -- yep, pegged it. Comparison by analogy 
 -- slides in nicely.

Doubts / quibbles:
"wonderlust" or "wanderlust"? Lust after 'sensawonda',
 or after the joys of life upon the road & trail?

In written form, it might be stronger personification to capitalize Winter 
and Autumn.  (not certain how these are treated elsewhere in the full work, 
and how much you might want to make the more-"classical" connection -- 
implying Greco-Roman or possibly Nordic saga stylings)

As to "in-period" flavorings: not inconsistent with Elizabethan-era 
offerings I recall from my own highschool studies...

> -Kathleen (The Not-Yet-A-Bard)

Are you quite so certain, milady? By what definition? If not "true" bard, it 
would seem only a matter of time, training, and acknowledgement -- within 
the looser definitions of the SCA, ye'll do for now!

Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard)  s.k.a. Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri 
al-Amra
     currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mike C. Baker                      mbaker at rapp.com
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