Haiku For Vixen (F)

[LordNelson]

Vixen lies helpless
Bound and gagged on the bed
True sisterly love

[LordNelson]

I have tried many types of writing but had never attempted a haiku before. The rules are simple, line one is five syllables, line two seven and line three five again.

[Steak in a Tree]

Line 2 only appears to be 6 syllables. Interesting idea nonetheless.

[bondagefreak]

[mention]Steak in a Tree[/mention]
Hum...I think you're wrong, steak-boi.
I clearly see seven syllables in the second line.

Bound/and/ga/gged/on/the/bed

[Steak in a Tree]

[mention]bondagefreak[/mention] That's the first time I've seen anyone say "gagged" as [ga/gged]. I've always pronounced it as [gagd], and a couple of "Syllable Counters" I've quickly Googled have agreed with me.

If that's what Mr. Nelson was planning, then I'll let it slide... but only once, and only because he's a fellow Canadian.

[bondagefreak]

[mention]Steak in a Tree[/mention] Fair enough. Being Canadians, this is your mother tongue, so I'll defer to your judgements when it comes to english language matters.

However, I need to point out that your own language tools are in strong disagreement with each other.
After doing a Bing search for english syllable counters and visiting the first four counters, I get "gagged" (1 syllable) twice, and "gagged" (2 syllables) twice.

[Steak in a Tree]

That is... certainly interesting. The English language in general is a bit of a mess in spots, so I'm not super surprised at the discrepancy, heh.

[iliketights]

Sounds like it's time for a poll - who says "gagged" with one syllable, and who says it with two?

I've always said it with one syllable (in fact, I've never heard it with two).

[MaxRoper]

I've never heard gagged pronounced as two syllables, but all's fair in love and poetry.

[LordNelson]

My own research shows supporters of both one syllable and two syllables for the word gagged. I originally considered it two. For those that agree with the one position I have made a slight edit:

Vixen lies helpless
Bound and gagged on her own bed
True sisterly love

For those that may be puzzled by the last line let me just say that Vixen enjoys a rather interesting relationship with her sister Maylor and I'll leave it at that.

[Vixen]

Oooof... I used to at least lol.. emh Any ways thanks for this gift it's sweet as always like everything you do! ^.^

I just wish I could get his subtile or even go hiku's work to appreciate this even more! There's gagged and me in it to! So it's great! Yeah