Today, I've got a parody of Leigh Hunt's great small poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me," from the 1830s. Here is Hunt's original:
Jenny Kiss’d Me
—Leigh Hunt (1830s)
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in:
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.
Here's a link to this poem online. It's one of my favorite poems ever. An underrated poem by a great Romantic poet. Here's my parody.
Dogsitting
parody of Leigh Hunt’s
poem “Jenny Kiss’d Me”
Penny pooped when we went out
To walk around the block today.
She peed three times to mark, no doubt,
For other dogs, she’d been this way
To say she's healthy, but she's sad
Her mom has gone away on a trip.
Dumb or not, we can always add:
Penny pooped.
—Draft by Vince Gotera [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]
Silly, but I hope you enjoyed that. There's a little rhyming trick above. I do some enjambed rhyme here (where the end rhyme is completed at the beginning of the next line). Look at lines 6 and 8: "trip/D..." and "pooped."
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