{"id":2774,"date":"2020-06-28T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2020-06-28T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:16:23","slug":"thou-shalt-never-die-an-italian-style-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/06\/28\/thou-shalt-never-die-an-italian-style-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"THOU SHALT NEVER DIE &#8211; AN ITALIAN STYLE SONNET"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>If a writer falls in love with thee, thou shalt never die.<br>He immortalizes thee through words.<br>Thy wouldst dwell forever in the sky likest the birds,<br>Once the mighty ink dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Heaven&#8217;s the abode wherest the eternity underlie.<br>Wouldst echo, thy name in the sublime music of angels&#8217; harp chords.<br>Thy fame shalt live forever in the books of earthly bards.<br>It ist the divine love thy beloved&#8217;s words signify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immortal thou shalt remain!<br>Ages pass by, with the waves of time.<br>Washing off from the pages, it&#8217;s age-old grime\u2026<br>Written with quill dipped in love-enriched ink, thus leave a permanent stain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Remember, a true lover&#8217;s efforts never goest in vain!<br>When love ist true, it survives beyond a lifetime\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an <strong>Italian\/Petrarchan style sonnet<\/strong> in <strong>archaic English<\/strong>, based on <strong>abba abba cddccd <\/strong>rhyme scheme.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RHYME SCHEME<\/strong><br><strong>Octave: <\/strong>abba abba<br><strong>Sestet: <\/strong>cddccd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>If a writer falls in love with thee, thou shalt never die.He immortalizes thee through words.Thy wouldst dwell forever in the sky likest the birds,Once&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1363,"featured_media":2776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,794],"tags":[644,604,182,25],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-poetry","tag-english-poem","tag-english-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}