More on the Influence of Form

Not long ago, I posted about the influence that poetic form has on the effect of a poem. At that time I said that I intended to do further experiments with translation of a poem from one form to another. Here is my next attempt.

The starting point is a light verse I posted almost at the beginning of this blog. The original is a Shakespearean sonnet, which may be thought of as a sequence of seven couplets. The first translation is a series of seven cinquains; the second is a series of seven ha...