Ok, this is a difficult one.
Anapaestic Hexameters describing how to get to your house. I would have found it much easier to write in tetrameters with this metre, but here we go:
If you wish to be swift you should hop on the tube just as soon as you like
The Victoria line is the line that is blue and is just what you need
Just be patient, just sit, till you get to the Hale and then off you will jump
Take a left at the gate and then under the road. Just the bridge left to go.
I’m not very happy with my attempt there. I don’t think 6 beats to a line suits me at all, and all my instinct was to cut them shorter.
Next, dactylic pentameter on the subject of cows. Four dacyls and a spondee. Again very hard, especially with the 40 minute time limit for both poems.
Cows in the fields, just like cows on the farms live a good life
Grazing and mooing, their days filled with sunshine and fresh grass
Flies perhaps bothers you when it is hot in the day time
Warm in your shed over night there is comfort and warm hay.
I’m not sure I truly believe that cows live such an idyllic existence, but it serves the purpose of the exercise!
