Our Stars and Stripes national flag
Respect, it always should be afforded
Never purposely onto floor let it drag
An act which must not be rewarded
The years from colonies to nation
There has been more repulsion
Our flag evolving, more often to get
Behaviors of contumely target
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Author Notes
Contumely means insolent or insulting behavior
ASSIGNED TOPIC for week of 6-21-19
~~~Old-Timey or Archaic Word~~~
Write a RISPETTO with ONE old-timey or archaic word as your topic. Please read the rules of the rispetto. Please include the definition of your word choice in author notes. Please DO NOT copy all this info in your notes--some of it is FYI. Your word choice, its definition, and info on the style is ok. N
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A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is:
*** a complete poem of TWO rhyme quatrains with strict meter.
***The meter is usually iambic tetrameter
*** rhyme scheme of abab ccdd.
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2006 Betty Lou Hebert
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