Oh Will! Today it’s your birthday
(And sadly, also when you died).
Tradition says so anyway.
Oh Will! Today it’s your birthday,
and when my students sang, they sighed.
They hate to study poems and plays
Dear Will! Today it’s your birthday.
(And sadly, also when you died).
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A triolet. Set rhyme scheme, with repeating lines, in iambic tetrameter. Happy Birthday William Shakespeare April 23, 1564 to April 23, 1616.
Shawn L. Bird 
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Thank you for the compliment!
Nicely done
Thanks. I realised just before midnight that despite all the celebrations at school, I had not done anything on the blog to commemorate the day, so it was a quickie. lol
Wonderful!
Thank you.
Come on, Shawn. I know you can do better than this. I’ve seen you do better than this.
lol Definitely. 😉 Can’t be brilliant every day, though.
Very clever. The juxtaposition of young students studying the works of one who has been dead for nearly 400 years was well conceived. Nice!
-R-