What must the sonnet bend its form around?
What must the ode give tribute to, or laud?
To what belongs the metered verse, or sound
Of rhyming couplets? Let them describe God
And let them speak of love and justice well.
It seems to fit the villanelle to sing
Of mighty works, the rubaiyat to tell
Of noble deeds, of wars, of knights, of kings.
This is the evidence of former times:
That glory was bestowed on gilded ink
And granted to the wittiest of rhymes
Which made us turn to truth--to grow, to think.
Indeed bold topics suit such forms as these--
But which form shall I use to write of cheese?
postscript
For day 22. what i don't even. "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."--G.K. Chesterton