The Married Miller

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For Comedy

  This was a hard but fun class assignment from The New Horizons Writing Academy right here on WC. (A great school and my shameless plug)
  The prompt was the painting, 'Peasant Wedding' by Pieter Bruege, shown below.
  It is my first somewhat feeble attempt at a Sonnet form. I found my inspiration from the couple in the right hand side of the painting. The woman is engaged in conversation, the man dutifully listening (or so it appears.) Enjoy. :)

The Married Miller


Alas, all she ever does is just talk.
To the wedding feast we did take a stroll.
The conversation was long, dull and droll.
Chattering and clattering! Oh, slow walk.
Be strong man! Patience man! Try not to balk.
Her boring words drove an exacting toll.
Talked through their vows and all through the scroll.
My poor ears full, but not of dust and chalk.

Non-stop through the main marriage meal
No morsel she knew, t'was my ear she chew.
A hope for silence, this thing I would steal.
Away long ago, the wise would have flew.
My mind is numb and my ears can not feel.
Oh fated new groom, if only you knew...

Done in iambic pentameter... perhaps. Using two rhymes arranged
abbaabba, and the sestet, using an arrangement of two rhymes: cdcdcd