[Quiet Man Cometh]

I don't much like writing poems for class assignments. Only had to do it a few times though all through my education. Three precisely.

2 in English 12 mimicing the styles of Sylvia Plath in "Mushrooms" and A.E. Hausman in "Is My Team Ploughing?" and then one in second year English in college, writing a poem about the romantic poets using the "Byronic Stanza." I actually spent more time and effort on my high school poems. I forgot about the other assignment until the night before and I wrote the whole thing at 2am over maybe half an hour, blak page to finished poem. It went over well actually. I went heavy on the alliteration and assonance and accidentally used a particular poetic rhyming device (can't recall the name - using a series of small words to rhyme with a large one) which my teacher complimented me on. I'm okay with most of the poem but the last two lines bother me. Not sure if I ever got around to fixing them. It was a poem about how Coleridge may have written "Kublai Khan."