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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rigoletto – Mobile Verse Parody Verdi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In this opera by Verdi, with the choicest of libretti<br>ranging up to alto, down to double bass, <br>to avoid the nitty-gritty of the plot would be a pity, <br>so in nineteen stanzas scan the rhymes encased.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Scene is set in some fair city where the search for someone pretty<br>was the past-time of a Duke with time to waste, <br>he’s the subject of this ditty which runs true to subject, witty, <br>wise, and well within the boundaries of taste.<br>.<br>Now this Duke had roving eyes bright, marriage ties seemed to despise quite, <br>all affection had forgotten for Her Grace, <br>Countess Cipriano one night spies at a party, quickly tries tight <br>to encircle, during dancing, by fair waist.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Noting, not without surprise where, anger blazing through his eyes’ stare, <br>the Count in fury fumed at the unchaste, -<br>she appeared a pretty prize there, perfect in both features, size, fair<br>and, despite his presence, to the dance made haste.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So the Count became besotto at the ball while most were blotto<br>when taunted by the jester of the place, <br>who, by name of Rigoletto did the dirty work, you bet, - oh<br>adding insult to the injury bare faced.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Through his wit had Rigoletto, using aphorism, motto, <br>angered every grandee he with wit outfaced, <br>so the spurned Count Cipriano allied with his friend Marullo<br>jointly planning jester’s fall and swift disgrace.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">For Marullo did discover secret visits to a dove, a <br>mistress to whose house the jester nightly paced, <br>when this fact he did unover planned to cary off the lover<br>and deliver to the Duke her dainty face.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Rigoletto had a daughter, there are many might have thought her<br>most angelical in crinoline and lace, -<br>for at church the Duke had sought her and forthwith began to court her, <br>caring little for her fortune or her race.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Gilda was her name, her mother having passed away, no other<br>close relation, uncle, brother, had been traced, <br>Rigoletto tried to smother GIlda’s wish for freedom, lover, <br>saying in his heart she could not be replaced.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But by opening his purse there Duke bribed Gilda’s worthless nurse, -<br>woman scarce deserving either trust or place, <br>thus he triggered off a curse the jealous courtiers did nurse, <br>leading to the maiden’s murder vile and base.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Thus the Duke would soon discover that the father of his lover<br>yet to be, his jester was, – as he embraced<br>Gilda, staying undercover, taking ‘student’ as a cover<br>for his occupation – how her young heart raced! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then the courtisans all banded, underhandely commanded, <br>stole the Fool’s girl right before his banded face, <br>having kidnapped her they, candid, on the Duke’s fond lap soon landed<br>her - whose innocence was very soon debased.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When the jester understood all he went beserk beyond recall, <br>to a hired assassin hied him in his haste, <br>paid the gold and in a hold-all was to get Duke’s body cold-all, <br>to Verona meant to flee before the chase.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But the plot failed for pale Gilda having heard the bravo’s sister<br>plead for mercy for the man she would enlace, <br>gave her own life for her lover, while he - messing with another -<br>never missed her as he kissed her rival’s face! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There the harlot earns her copper while ingénue comes a cropper -<br>falls from rosy fable into sable bier.<br>As the former tricks her supper, fixes liquor lacing cuppa, <br>virtue spurned, seduced’s, reduced to souvenir. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So while singing ‘light and jolly is the mind of every molly’<br>ruthless villain did in Gilda, - dire disgrace! <br>Yet the fates of fair young dolly facing plutocrats with lolly<br>scarcely vary though it’s scary through time, place.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Thus instead of brigand stabbing Duke ‘twas Gilda he was nabbing, <br>unbeknown to Rigoletto, - sad’s the case.<br>When discovered, both fell blabbing, daughter dying near dark cabin<br>where (b) randy dandy Duke found fond embrace.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Now the moral of this story, which is somewhat sad and gory, <br>is that sacrifice and love are Woman’s place, <br>bending to Man’s whim is glory, for He knows what’s best – a law he<br>would have obeyed throughout the human race! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=425877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Here we end this tale of living, trust the reader is forgiving<br>errors all that fall unto the ear or eye, <br>time to other verses giving we shall go despite misgiving<br>leaving two short words to wish all here “good bye”!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a></strong></div>