French horn Poem

[Wilfred]

Ode to the French horn

Oh horn so silver brass and fine.
What comes from thee is sound divine.
None other has that sweet, rich tone,
That sound belongs to thee alone.
None other has that big bright bell
From out which comes no words can tell.
None can compare with thee my horn,
To thee alone my love is sworn.

[azmuse]

1. i happen to despise rhymed poetry...
2. i could hear your horn playing! :)

[Wilfred]

I hope my playing sounded good!

[Sarsipius]

I thought it was superb, of course I may be biased. (I'm a musician!)

[Wilfred]

ahh...a musician, the most noble profession.

[Stanislaw]

I liked the poem, sonnet if I am not mistaken.
Pretty good even if it was about the french horn;)

You are a true poet.

[Wilfred]

Why thank you Stanislaw, I can see at least you have good taste in poems, if not other things. At least we both agree that the violin could never inspire such awesome poetry.

[MacBeth]

To set aright a few comments, a sonnet always has fourteen lines in total (although this piece does sound like one), and verse without some sort of versification (the most common type of which is rhyme) does not deserve to be called verse. Fortunatley, this piece does rhyme, and includes a few other literary qualities. Onto my criticizism: although I usually find that poems written with less than five feet per line are shoddy, this one is far from it. This provides a certain upbeat rhymth, something even some of the world's finer poets do not possess. Take Thomas Grey for example--he had a great amount of talent, but he sounded as if he was dying. I also enjoyed the use of some archaic language; this combined with that certain vigour and Dryden's "heroic couplets" rhyme scheme makes for a wonderful read. As for punctuation, I think that at the end of the first line, there should be a comma. Likewise, I think the period at the end of the second line should be a semi-colon. Periods are tricky things to use in a poem. In conclusion, I must say, in accordance with Stainslaw, that you are a true poet.

[Wilfred]

Why thank you, Macbeth.