This funny letter poem has rhyme, rhythm, and lots of word play in the appropriate language to make it suitable as a performance poem, imagined to be written as a reply from the queen to my Royal Pardon poem. It is also an excellent example of alliteration and consonance poetry.
| Dear Angela, One wonders where one gets the notion to question one’s royal devotion. How dare one imply that one needs to try to combat such common commotion?!
One can’t tolerate the suggestion of failures in regal digestion. One just could not bear a royal fanfare; The idea is out of the question. One’s genes have a special ingredient to make one’s digestion obedient. One cannot be fruity as one has a duty: Decorum, for queens, is expedient. One hopes that one never shall shame the majesty of one’s good name, but if one should fail (and wind should prevail) one’s corgis are useful to blame! Signed Her Majesty The Queen |
This is my favourite verse because of the amount of alliteration in it. I love the example of consonance in “to combat such common commotion”‘Decorum’ means ‘correct manner and behaviour’ ‘Expedient means ‘appropriate to a purpose’. In other words, she has a duty to have the correct manner and behaviour to be able to be a queen. |
When I wrote this, I knew that there was another poem to follow continuing this series, but only had the beginning of an idea. However, as so often happens, I came back to it later, using inspiration from comments about this one, and wrote the final letter in the trilogy called “A Royal Apology“.
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