Who promoted poetry, was it Shakespeare or Bukowski?

Ironically, "poetry" in line one, can never be forced into the iambic. The emphasis is always on the PO, and we trail off gently with the following (two?) sylables.

You might get away with it if you re-arrange the order..

Oh BARD, whose PO-eh-TREE toasTED the Worms.

(But even this is a little forced).

Danny

My best suggestion of how to make line one properly fit the iambic style would be, "Oh bard, in whose poems the worms do toast" But sonnets are not my strong point, so I'm not sure if that actually works or makes sense.

Questor

"For it is by grace you have been saved"

Nice shortie sire, albeit imperfect.

Neither promoted poetry. Poetry promoted itself.

They were vessels of the force.

I have a hard enough time producing a poem in iambic pentameter,

let alone complete one of yours bro. If I have time I might come

back and try. Don't be surprised if geeky deep sixes this answer

as it does not meet the yahoo guidelines, so he thinks.

regards

Thank God, no moons, tides or flowers of capital L Love.

Shook Sphere

Bard whose pages toast in old worm's stomachs

No page remains to honor this sad place?

Your gales "blow, winds and crack your cheek" affixed

That you, creative knave, no longer grace

But if thy eye could rheum about the room

Could "Lock him in, so he can play the fool"

"Will the line stretch out to th' crack of doom?"

Or will Will stay insensate like a jewel?

No fools, no knaves, no trespass sends the bard

Ruining gloomy high schoolers with his plays

He will not rise, though witches summon hard

Contained within dry books his longing stays.

No Shakespeare will not bless us with his pen

We face the faded wryhmes of lesser ken.

.......`to whose poetry worms do toast`.,

is grammatically correct, Q.

Or; `......t`ward whose poems/ poetry......`.

*slips back under a buttercup, lol.*

Shakeybones promoted, Bukowski propounded, imo.

L2 and L3 are perfect iambic pentameter.