FIRST inspired poetry... that I wrote for my English Literature class in college

[Elgin Clock]

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who responded to my call for FIRST inspired terms in THIS THREAD.

I handed these in for extra credit on the last day of class, so I won't recieve any feedback about them, so I ask you for the feedback instead.

Basically the assignment was to write a form poem (sestina, sonnet, or villanelle) & an open form poem. The open form poem I'll have to upload later, since I did it so that the shape of the words in the poem spelled out FIRST

Anyways, here's my form poem, and I chose to do a villanelle style poem.


6 Weeks of Hell

FIRST, you need to learn how to play the game
How to win it and what to design.
Now we have an idea, let’s make the frame.
Make some parts from CAD drawings like mine.
Build a chassis and make it roll.
Add the gearboxes, and add the chain
Wire it up and drill a speed hole.
Is it complete? When can we train?
It’s almost done let’s build the field
Look at that, the bot’s not gonna flip.
Go driver go, don’t go and yield.
Hurry up and practice, WE GOTTA SHIP!!
Pack the crate early and we’ll finish by noon.
Hope that it’s done, we’ll compete with it soon.


A villenelle style poem follows a pattern assigned with the last rhyming words of each line. If you were to list the rhyming sound by line, by assigning letters to them it would look like:

A,B,A,B,
C,D,C,D,
E,F,E,F,
GG

Where as the 1st line's last word rhymes with the 3rd, the 2nd with the 4th. and so on.. until the end where the last two words in the last two lines rhyme with each other.

OK, now that I am done giving you a study of poetry, what do you all think??