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Reginald's Sonnet

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Mar 8, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Mar 9, 2024

My love, how deep thy beauty stirs affection;

It comes not from a coat of painted gloss,

But rather springs from perfect imperfection

Unaffected as knolls of fitful moss:

The subtle marks that gently speck thy face,

And kindred moles that frame thy honest form

Bespeak a character with such a grace

That a once-frigid soul might now feel warm.

I wish my features could return in kind

The compound natures that shape thy beauty,

But I am simple gloss of simple mind,

A character bound by terms of duty.

So, through this rigid verse I vainly strive

To match thy heart, and make my love alive. - Amanda Riddell, c. 2015-2016.


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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Mar 09, 2024

Explainer: well, why did I bother to write a correct sonnet? Well, as often with me, it was to impress people. I wrote an essay analysing one of the arias from The Magic Flute (Tamino's aria). I didn't recognise the poetic form, but Peter Walls told me that it was a sonnet. Then there was the whole 'write a character that speaks blank verse' idea that I had to make Reginald seem believable. My brother kept writing Thor-esque dialogue, but the metrical feet made that much more interesting. As for why it was spoken instead of sung: that was an instinctual decision -- I felt that it was best served by being spoken.

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