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I’m a huge fan of DC Comics and Batman. I’ve seen all of the movies, cartoons, and TV shows. I’ve read alot of the comic books. So I was overjoyed when I found a Tim Drake monologue poem from Detective Comics #946.
In this monologue poem, Tim Drake (Robin) is vehemently explaining to Bruce Wayne (Batman) how to increase the good that Batman does for Gotham by having Batman be the head of a network of heroes. These heroes would be crime fighters who police the city, or medics who save lives, or volunteers working to rehabilitate criminals and the mentally ill in prisons and asylums.
This monologue poem is written in 8 quintets (5 line stanzas) where the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme with one another, the 2nd & 4th lines rhyme with one another, and the 5th line does NOT rhyme at all. The 5th line is there to conclude the thought like a period at the end of a sentence. So the rhyme scheme is written like this: ababc, dedef, ghghi, etc..
If I were to perform this monologue, I would speak as persuasively as I possibly could. I would put a short pause between every 5th line and the 1st line of the next stanza to reinforce the sound of me concluding the thought, like a period at the end of a sentence. I would speak the unrhymed 5th line of every stanza with greater or lesser tone and volume than the rhymed lines.
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James Ivan 