Rhymed Couplets- Octosyllabic
RAINBOW - Rhymed Couplets
ALL CAPS - Inspiration word
The gentles say that in Our DREAM
There's countless directions and themes
Rose's passions and pursuits grow
Erudition with arrows and bow
We realize that she DREAMS such DREAMS
The royals' route is sure it seems
Brennan and Caoilfhionn, will make clear.
Award of Arms as witnessed here
Afore the East We have so deemed
Rose Le Fay's tier within The DREAM
Done at Bloodfeud in the Danelaw,
in Shire of Coldwood, As We saw
AS 58
First Bloom
This is the first scroll, of what became a veritable wreath of Roses! The next 4 scrolls the recipient’s either have Rose in their name somehow, or consider roses very important to them. When I sat back and looked at the scrolls going I was delightfully surprised!
For this recipient I decided to work with their name.
Searching for a period poem that featured roses, and found Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose). In Le Roman de la Rose there was confirmation of the Octosyllabic rhyming couplets The Translated version of the poem: Guillaume de Lorris The Romance of the Rose (Le Roman de la Rose) provided direct inspiration for the composition:
In Chapter I: The Lover’s prologue
There are but lies and idle themes;
And yet a man can dream such dreams
As are not lies, rather, it seems,
Their meaning, later, becomes clear.
We may invoke as witness here,
Macrobius who did not deem
All things mere folly seen in dream,”
KEY
Rhymed Couplets - Octosyllabic
RAINBOW - Rhymed Couplets
ALL CAPS - Inspiration word
The gentles say that in Our DREAM
There's countless directions and themes
The original inspiration piece has a much different tone than this scroll. The piece was a parable in basically everything a young person ought not to do. My goal was to keep the original rhymes, but tweak them into the praise poem this would end up being.
Rose's passions and pursuits grow
Erudition with arrows and bow
With the second couplet I began the pattern of a dream verse and a non dream verse. THe original had one couplet out of four that didn’t have the keyword. This piece is also one set longer than the original snippet I was working from.
I toyed around with what to include in this description couplet. The recommendation mentioned toy sheep gathering at GNEW, In the end I stayed with their archery interests. There was no particular reason for this, other than going the way the rhymes dictated.
We realize that she DREAMS such DREAMS
The Royals' route is sure it seems
This became the best place to transition into the information necessary for the scroll.
Brennan and Caoilfhionn, will make clear.
Award of Arms as witnessed here
This introduction would normally be where the heraldic latin for the recipient’s arms would go. This recipient has yet to register their name and arms.
Afore the East We have so deemed
Rose Le Fay's tier within The DREAM
A bit of a rhyme cheat here. Deemed/Dreamed is not a full rhyme. Of course now, writing this summation, I think of a better way to phrase it that could have used the full hit rhyme, alas.
Done at Bloodfeud in the Danelaw,
in Shire of Coldwood, As We saw
The final couplet. It wrapped up the last of the necessary information and managed to rhyme the name of the event into the couplet. While this scroll was not given out at that event, it will be given out at Coronation instead. Some heralds are known to change the events to reflect the changed date, and some will read the piece as written. Due to the rhyme pattern that has been built, I hope it is the later and not the former.
AS 58
And finally the year. It would not fit into the poem, so it’s tacked on at the end. If the herald chose to omit this, I would not have an opinion either way. The information will be on both the scroll and the sheet that the herald will read in court.
I had no idea when I started this scroll that the next several scrolls would have so many roses! I almost regretted at one point that I had used this source first! I was so happy with this scroll though. I know the recipient is a minor and particularly wanted to give them a beautifully worded scroll that they would keep for years to come!
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