{"id":4283,"date":"2013-05-03T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2013-11-21T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:04:50","slug":"shakespeare-song-parody-full-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/4283","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Song Parody: Full Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the 34th in a series<\/a> of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

\nFull Stop<\/strong>
\nsung to the tune of “Thrift Shop”<\/p>\n

(With apologies to Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Wanz…)<\/p>\n

Hey, Shakespeare! Can you write some poetry?<\/p>\n

Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM
\nDa DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM
\nDa DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM
\nDa DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM<\/p>\n

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
\nABAB CDCD EFEF GG
\nABAB CDCD EFEF GG
\nABAB CDCD EFEF GG<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna write some verse.
\nOnly got fourteen lines in a sonnet:
\nI-I-Iambic Pentameter,
\nWith a given rhyme scheme.<\/p>\n

Nah, take up the quill like \u201cWhat up? Gonna write a lot.\u201d
\nThree quatrains and a couplet ending in a full stop.
\nInk on the parchment, I\u2019m so close on it,
\nThat people like \u201cDamn! That\u2019s a perfect sonnet.\u201d
\nGonna get hella deep, compare thee to a summer\u2019s day,
\nBut it\u2019s all in your favor, \u2018cause thou art lovelier, if I may.
\nSo long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
\nSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee.<\/p>\n

Yes!
\nIt doesn\u2019t even have to make sense!<\/p>\n

Thinkin\u2019 it, Writin\u2019 it, Let me confess that we two must be twain.
\nOur undivided loves are one, so shall those blots with me remain.
\nSometimes I write for my favorite young man,
\nOr else it\u2019s the Dark Lady and…
\nStarting a new one, it\u2019s: O! How thy worth with manners may I sing?
\nWhat can praise to myself bring? What can praise to myself bring?
\nNo, for real \u2013 what a torment would thy absence prove?
\nBetter entertain the time with thoughts of love,
\nImmortalized in poetry that I\u2019ve been writin\u2019.
\nYou shall shine more bright in this powerful rhyme
\nThan gilded monuments besmear\u2019d with sluttish time.
\nHello, Hello, Good e\u2019en, good fellow!
\nPetrarch ain\u2019t got nothing on my rhyme schemes, hell no!
\nI could take them to the printer, bind them up, sell those.
\nThe tavern gang would be like \u201cAw, he got the Quartos.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna write some verse.
\nOnly got fourteen lines in a sonnet:
\nI-I-Iambic Pentameter,
\nWith a given rhyme scheme.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI\u2019m gonna write some verse.
\nOnly got fourteen lines in a sonnet:
\nI-I-Iambic Pentameter,
\nWith a given rhyme scheme.<\/p>\n

Let me not impede the marriage of true minds.
\nLove\u2019s not love which alters when it alteration finds.
\nIf this be, If this be error, and upon me prov\u2019d,
\nI never writ, nor no man ever lov\u2019d.
\nThank God, my mistress\u2019s eyes are nothing like the sun.
\nHer hairs be wires and her breasts be dun.
\nAnd yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
\nAs any she belied with false compare.
\nChiasmus, Ekphrasis, Litotes, Ellipsis…
\nI use all those Greek devices, so much more than any other.
\nThough I know she lies, I believe my tender lover,
\nAnd that allows us both to be flattered by each other.
\nShe be like \u201cOh, he believes me that I am full of truth.\u201d
\nI\u2019m like \u201cO, she thinks that I am some untutored youth.\u201d
\nIt\u2019s an illusion, just a mutual delusion.
\nFull of truth? To think that I\u2019m a youth?
\nNo, I think that I am long in the tooth.
\nBut I lie with her, and she with me,
\nAnd in our faults by lies we flatter\u2019d be.
\nI still love her so.
\nThose lips that Love\u2019s own hand did make
\nBreathed forth the sound that said “I hate,”
\nTo me that languished for her sake,
\nSo I wrote her a sonnet, she thought it was great.<\/p>\n

She thought it was great.<\/p>\n

Good Will! Write some verse! Yeah!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna write some verse.
\nOnly got fourteen lines in a sonnet:
\nI-I-Iambic Pentameter,
\nWith a given rhyme scheme.<\/p>\n

I share with you, my friend:
\nTo Mr. W.H.,
\nThese poems that I penned,
\nWith a full stop at the end.<\/p>\n

I share with you, my friend:
\nTo Mr. W.H.,
\nThese poems that I penned,
\nWith a full stop at the end.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna write some verse.
\nOnly got fourteen lines in a sonnet:
\nI-I-Iambic Pentameter,
\nWith a given rhyme scheme.<\/p>\n

Is that a full stop at the end?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the 34th in a series of 40 pop-music parodies for Shakespeare fans. Enjoy! Full Stop sung to the tune of “Thrift Shop” (With apologies to Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Wanz…) Hey, Shakespeare! Can you write some poetry? Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM Da DUM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48,78,95,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-music","category-parody","category-poetry","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}