A/N: This is an attempt at a sonnet starring my favorite fairy tale character: The Pied Piper of Hamlin. Although, I suppose it really works with any story about fairies and the like.
I've never tried to write a sonnet before (actually, I've probably never tried to write a structured poem before), so I'm really interested to see what people think.
Seriously, even if you think that it's horrible and you'd like nothing more than to burn it, I'd really like to hear about it. I'm pretty curious.
I won't take you far, nor keep you too long,
Though I hope that you'll choose to remain.
For it can be lonely with naught but a song,
Though it might have a cheerful refrain.
Come, let me teach you the tongue of the thorn
And the dialect of wild field flowers
Whose manner of speech is met only with scorn
By their cousins of gardens and bowers.
If only you'll dance with me a short while,
I'll lead you to wonders and dreams.
Where life will not offer you sorrow and trial,
But laugher and fairy-tale things.
So, follow me now, no deception I'll try;
Oh, how the piper's silken tongue can lie
A/N: Thank you to Clar the Pirate for suggestions for revisions