Sonnet for Zombie Bill

[akirlu]

Earlier today I spotted this post over on James Nicoll's LJ. All unknowing whose birthday (or more correctly, baptismal date) it was, I answered that if I could resurrect any author at the height of their powers knowing they would be brains-craving zombies, I would choose William Shakespeare. Well, then Abi over at Making Light started a sonnet

Comments

[holyoutlaw]

Hilarious.

[davidgoldfarb]

I hate to nitpick (oh, who am I kidding? I love to nitpick) but you're wanting four lines to be a proper sonnet.

[akirlu]

Ah, well, not for nothing do they call me Quatrain-short-of-a-sonnet Girl.

[greenshadows]

LOL! Was about to offer the same criticism but your response fixes everything. ;)

[akirlu]

Well, I may try to pull a final quatrain out of my butt one of these days, but I am a wee bit rusty, not having tried the sonnet form in, oh, several decades, I'd say.

[randy_byers]

Bravissimo! (Which the spellchucker thinks might want to be Pianissimo or Braveness instead.)