The Plagiaristic Final Chapter
This is an attempt to fuse the Vocal Acrostic Challenge with the Titles of Final Chapters Of Books In My Library. The format is a doctored sonnet as a sonnet has 16 lines and DISTRACTION has only 11 letters so eleven lines, so two quatrains and a tercet.
The Prompt
Write an acrostic using the word DISTRACTION.
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This is an attempt to fuse the Vocal Acrostic Challenge with the Titles of Final Chapters of Books in my Library. The format is a doctored sonnet as a sonnet has 16 lines and DISTRACTION has only 11 letters so eleven lines, so two quatrains and a tercet.
This has been difficult trying to find Final Chapters beginning with the letter "I" plus the length of the lines set by the one starting "In" which has made it a little cumbersome in my opinion. The second "In" is a penultimate chapter but I have decided I have been through enough books to satisfy my task.
Once you have the chapter names, then you have to create the poem. I wonder if anyone knows any of these chapters and the books they come from. At least one is very obvious.
I was gonna use Europe's "Final Countdown" as the music but I then discovered this Swing Metal version by Connor Engstrom. Have you ever heard of Swing Metal? Should it exist? I think this is geat fun, so give it a listen while you read my poem.
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Doomed Lord's Passing And Empires Will Fall, Crushed By Their Conquerors As Airmen Watch From Their Swift Flying Lofty Nests
In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing By His Tour Around The World Unless It Were Happiness.
Shock Horror I Cannot Believe That I Have Sunk Myself Into This Distracting Literary Wordy Mess
The End Of Celluloid Has No Doubt Signified That Entertainment Had Finally Gone Digital No Less
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Rumpole Rests His Case This Work Needs A Very Funny Barrister To Carry It Through To The Final Judgement
Abide With Me As I Push On With Elonganted And Sometimes Irrelevant Words To Tell You What I Meant
Captain Korzeniowski Is A Character I Don't Know Except He Spent Much Of His Time Doing Nothing
Things I Have Enjoyed Since The Time I Thought I Would Never Enjoy Anything Again, Music, Reading, And Loving
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In Which This Story, As Truthful As It Is Improbable, Is Finished, This Was A Cheat But I Made It Blend
Out Of Nothing I Have Created A Strange New Universe For Me To Enjoy And Share With Loving Friends
Nature Boy Is What I Am, I Love The World, Animals, And Trees. And So My Distraction Acrostic Ends
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I misunderstood Plagiaristic Final Chapter to be the finale of this series and I was so sad. Then I read your subtitle and was relieved. This was a brilliant combo of acrostic, plagiaristic and doctored sonnet!
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I can see that a lot of thought went into this one. Well done.