My Lucid Reality

Welcome to the Sunday Mangled poem.  Every week I post a mangled poem, sometimes it’s something simple with no point other than to point out that there are some terrible poems out there, or to demonstrate just how badly I can do poetry.  I do this in celebration of some of the published poems I have read that make my brain hurt.
 
This week’s mangled poem is an Ode to the Ode.  The Ode is a rhymed post of irregular meter that praises its subject.  The English ode consists of an undefined number of 10 line stanzas (E-how).  To begin we pick a subject we want to write an Ode about, generally this is something worthy of an ode, but as this is mangled poetry, it can be something a little less worthy of such a tribute.  Now comes rhyming, the rhyming of an ode is complex enough to make a limerick look tame.  The rhyme scheme is ababcdecde, and

I’ll try to break down the rhyming pattern further in my ode: “Ode to Car”.  One difficulty I had to keep an eye out for is the tendency to lose track of what you’re talking about in poems, I’ve had to constantly pull my thoughts back and shout to myself “You’re writing an ODE to a car, that means you LOVE the car!” it didn’t help,  but I know you’ll do better than I, and I look forward to it.

An Ode to a Car

Line 1:       We drive the car (a)
Line 2:       It drives real cool (b)
Line 3:       We take it far (a)
Line 4:       It makes us drool (b)
Line 5:       There’s no problem where I’m at (c)
Line 6:       The car can take me somewhere nice (d)
Line 7:       Cars like this are heaven sent (e)
Line 8:       The motor rumbles like a cat (c)
Line 9:       This monster is almost worth the price. (d)
Line 10:      When in this car I am content. (e)

I hope you like my Ode to Cars, I look forward to your poems, this has potential to be some of the absolute best yet, it looks intimidating, but I think if you give yourself to it, it’ll be a lot of fun.

I’ve also heard that you can make an ode out of pretty much anything, and that rhyme scheme matters a lot less “in today’s society” and it’s  an ode as long as you mention “ode” in the title.

To help you with your Rhymes the “Rhymezone” website is handy.

Reference:
E-how – How to Write an Ode