Topic: Honor Form: ABAB with refrai

[Mike Baker]

Wally Waltner (Wilhelm Dichtermann) sent greetings and a poem to be 
considered:
> ----
> The Honor Shall Go to You All

Wilhelm, what can I say? I liked it, very much indeed. I might quibble some 
with word choice here and there, but the overall composition is excellent.

Questions:
Were you following a particular example in constructing the refrain as you 
did?

How closely quoted were His Majesty Tarquin's words?

In performance, I presume that "warrior" is given the three-syllable 
pronunciation to maintain the meter -- might be worth mentioning in 
performance notes for any who don't hear you perform directly?

> The rivals stepped forward; each name was announced
> On the field where King Tarquin now stood
> Assembled, the warriors bent knee and paused
> To hear Tarquin speak, and he would:

Hurrah, a poet willing to (almost) break the rhyme rather than force some 
abomination upon his audience! ([phonically]sed vs. zed = false rhyme, at 
least to my ear)

Modern quibble: I-am-not-a-lawyer-but the c-in-circle copyright symbol many 
people consider as reserved for *registered* copyrights.  Ever since the 
change in the legalities some year back, setting the existence of copyright 
from time of creations, I have personally used the "Copyright 19xx fname 
lname" format.

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
Any opinions expressed are obviously my own unless explicitly stated 
otherwise!