What happens when three, previously unacquainted, meet for the first time; what do they talk about?

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I have decided to have some fun. I have written two Eugene Onegin sonnets on Fortune's Wheel. However, when the lines are put side by side (which space considerations will not allow me to do), they form a Trigee and when they put together and broken into seven four-line stanzas they form a partenza represa. I will give you the two sonnets followed by the partenza represa. I hope you enjoy. Incidentally, the stanzas of the partenza are also linked and the partenza begins and ends with the same three words.

Dame Fortune's wheel turns in all things

Her quiet hand informs all life;

To rise and fall the planet swings

On her command, all joy and strife.

Her call reverberates in each,

Her subtle sway, her endless reach,

Her heartless way to give and take,

To steal all hope, and for whose sake?

The hangman's rope is kinder still.

Yet she can lift as well as raze

Her playthings' dreams, and in her ways

She sorts and schemes, makes real her will

To murder swift; all that she owns

Could not appeal this heart of stones.

In all things move her quiet hand:

All life is made to rise and fall.

The planet swings on her command,

All joy and strife are at her call.

In each is felt her subtle sway,

Her endless reach, her heartless way

To give and take, to steal all hope

And for whose sake, the hangman's rope?

Still, if she kills, yet she can lift

As well as raze her playthings' dreams,

And in her ways she sorts and schemes,

Her will to raze, to murder swift.

All that she owns could not appeal

This heart of stones, Dame Fortune's wheel.

Dame Fortune's wheel turns in all things

In all things move her quiet hand

Her quiet hand informs all life

All life is made to rise and fall.

To rise and fall the planet swings

The planet swings on her command

On her command all joy and strife;

All joy and strife are at her call.

Her call reverberates in each

In each is felt her subtle sway

Her subtle sway, her endless reach

Her endless reach, her heartless way.

Her heartless way to give and take,

To give and take, to steal all hope,

To steal all hope, and for whose sake?

And for whose sake, the hangman's rope.

The hangman's rope is kinder still.

Still, if she kills, yet she can lift

Yet she can lift as well as raze

As well as raze her playthings' dreams

Her playthings' dreams, and in her ways

And in her ways she sorts and schemes

She sorts and schemes, makes real her will

Her will to raze, to murder swift.

To murder swift all that she owns

All that she owns could not appeal

Could not appeal this heart of stones

This heart of stones, Dame Fortune's wheel.

Answer 1

A Master's class you have just presented.  Too bad the trigee would not lay out.  Great rhythm and a great story.  My compliments.  

Answer 2

First let me say your sense of fun is otherworldly!  I'm reeling and will be re-reading this for a year or two!  Is this what happens when you combine a poet and a mathematician?  All the other monosyllabic expletives I want to use are probably best not used on this site, so in the spirit of discretion becoming a lady, I say...d**n, how does he do this????

Thank you!   ( now where is my Drambuie?)

Answer 3

This poem has taken me into sensory overload. I will have to top off the beer tank and try again...

Answer 4

About me:   I am a mathematician, scientist, avid reader, educator. You have forgot to add genius, confounder, intellectual, noetic and someone who is totally outstanding in poetic works.

Thank goodness I have my Family History to fall back on.

Answer 5

This is amazing and truly awesome...and I do mean that I am in awe of this.  I'm unfamiliar with the Eugene Onegin sonnets.  Is this how they are normally written...in a pair and with refrains?  Or, did you plan all this out so that you can get four amazing poem with the same theme?  I'm going to have to research the Eugene Onegin sonnets.  I just don't know what else to say except that this is exceptional and amazing.  Truly masterful work.

Addition:  Okay, after researching the  Eugene Onegin sonnet  I see what you have done and it's still amazing.  That's a lot of work too and you make it seem so simple.

Answer 6

Oh my!!! What have you done?!? I'm totally stunned by the offspring of the offsprings of maths and poetry. I was thinking of doing novel things like this, but your work made me rethink my decisions. That was absolutely brilliant! (please believe me, I'm not flattering). Thank you very much, and we all had fun.

Yours honestly,

an honset lad (rid)

Answer 7

You have given us all something to admire, and to desire to emulate, at least those of us who love playing with words and different forms of poetry. This is amazing.  You are a genius, thank goodness you are not throwing out a challenge for us to follow suit!

We all seem to have input our own style of a partenza represa....and each has been interesting....perhaps, Spyt could gather them all together in one place to show how her invention lends itself to freedom of thought and interpretation.  What say you Spyt?

(There is only one draw-back to posting poems such as these on A!Y - the form tends to attract a lot more intention than the content....which in this case is a pity.....it is a very interesting and thought-provoking verse)

Answer 8

I can't really get it like this. My eyes are still dilated from an exam for new glasses. I will have to try this tomorrow...

Answer 9

Hi I'm lulle,

As I've already said, this work of yours was amazing and very inspiring.

[compliments]

Please, I beg for your comment:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Thank you,

Rid