Soup Stingy

“No soup for you!” I heard him say
as I stood pensive with my tray.
The luncheonette a busy place,
but he with scowl on bearded face
was stingy with the soup that day.

My appetite for soup did stay
when looking at the wide array.
I tensed a bit when he did say,
“No soup for you.”

The counter stools were silver-gray
and at the end where people pay
the counter had a lot of space;
I noticed flowers in a vase.
Still, I was feeling much dismay…
“No soup for you!”


15 Lines
Rondeau
Writer’s Cramp
8-31-15
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Requirement:
Begin with, “No soup for you!”


(The rondeau is composed of fifteen lines, eight to ten syllables each, divided stanzaically into a quintet,
a quatrain, and a sestet. The refrain consists of the first few words or the entire first line of the first stanza,
and it recurs as the last line of both the second and third stanzas. Two rhymes guide the music of the rondeau,
whose rhyme scheme is as follows (R representing the refrain): aabba aabR aabbaR.)