Poem: I lik the form

My naym is pome / and lo my form is fix’d Tho peepel say / that structure is a jail I am my best / when formats are not mix’d Wen poits play / subversions often fail

Stik out their toung / to rebel with no cause At ruls and norms / In ignorance they call: My words are free / Defying lit'rate laws To lik the forms / brings ruin on us all

A sonnet I / the noblest lit'rate verse And ruls me bind / to paths that Shakespeare paved Iambic fot / allusions well dispersed On my behind / I stately sit and wave

You think me tame /   Fenced-in and penned / bespelled I bide my time /   I twist the end / like hell

* “lik” should be read as “lick”, not “like”. In general, the initial section on each line should be read sort of phonetically.

Written for World Poetry Day, March 21, 2018. When I had this idea earlier today, I thought it was the worst, most faux hip pretentious idea for a shallow demonstration of empty wordsmithing skill in poetry ever. So I had to try to write it. I mean, how often do you get to fuse the iambic dimeter of bredlik - one of the newest and most exciting verse forms - with the stately iambic pentameter of the classic sonnet?

BREDLIK SONNET

(source)

NOMINI MI BOS DVM NOX ORITVR CAELOQUE LVNA PROGREDITVR VIRIQUE LECTICVLOS QVAERONT EGO PERVIGILO PANEM LAMBO

oh dear god how have we reached this point

To clarify:

Tut, tut, tut. Classical Latin? Really? No, no, no. This meme, though it originated in a story of a reconstruction of an 18C French village, is itself firmly associated with 14C English. Therefore if you’re going to put it in Latin, it needs to look more medieval - ie, fewer majuscules, more flexibility with u/v. And, of course, a more vernacular word order, plus more emphasis on the tail-rhyme. 

May I suggest: 

nomini mi bos dum nox oritur caeloque luna  progreditur et viri lectos  quaerunt  panes mihi  lincti sunt

... no, still not right

what is missing I KNOW

it is the ABBREVIATIONS

okay here we go (and I shan’t even attempt the correct script since I can’t write neatly even nowadays):

(i know, i know, i can’t even keep my letters a consistent size.)