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The Sonnet of Zillyhoo, or "Behold the glory of its pow'rful might"

Summary:

An English, or Shakespearean, sonnet consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. These lines follow a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg, forming three quatrains and a couplet. This one is about the Warhammer of Zillyhoo.

Notes:

I did this for a giveaway posted by Tumblr user thesecretkeith. I liked it so much, I posted it here. Also I was an idiot and somehow did not realize that I had only written ten lines in this fourteen line form. I have prayed for forgiveness and edited the poem to fix this. But I will never forget that shame.

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Behold the glory of its pow’rful might
The great and awesome Zillyhoo of lore
Who from the distant city of midnight
Brings tears to those who had not wept before

The grandeur of its multicolored head
Is but a harbringer of peerless weight
All foes under its swing are smoten dead
And all who challenge it will meet their fate

Its heft, its girth, its massive striking pow'r
Slays imps and ogres, basilisks and those
Who dare disrupt the pacifistic hour
That kept this hammer in its deep repose

Of course, before you leave, admit the truth:
You saw this thing at first in Problem Sleuth.