Final La Parodia

To say SORRY

Is not enough
but I
wanna tell you
I used

your shampoo
felt so refreshing
while the bubbles
where running

down my back,
But don't worry
I only wasted a buck
worth




Analysis:
In my parody, I tried to keep the form but it ended up having a different form. My poem has four lines in each stanza, but it does not have the same number of syllables in each line as Williams's poem: "This is Just to Say." My poem has a total of three stanzas like Williams's poem. In his poem, he had four lines each stanza and a total of twelve lines. I also tried to keep the style of his choppy sentences (incomplete sentences) that constructed each line of the stanzas. For example, the first line of his poem "I have eaten" is then followed in the next line by "the plums.” I have eaten is not a complete sentence. He completes his thought in the next line. Instead of having long lines in each stanza, he constructed his poem to have short, incomplete sentences per line.
My poem also follows this technique in a mocking manner. Some of the ways I do that is by using a similar subject matter he writers about a plum while I write about shampoo. Also, he mentioned the value of the plum which he estimated was very expensive (that is pretty funny because a fruit is not going to be very expensive). On the other hand, I mention the amount that I used of the shampoo which was a little because I only wasted a buck worth. By mentioning that I only used a buck worth is how I tried to create my parody of Williams's poem, "This is Just to Say." While Williams tried to make a big point about the expensive plum, I tried to make fun of the expensive plums by saying that I only wasted a buck worth of shampoo.
Also, I tried to incorporate some imagery and a tangible feeling like he did by writing "felt so refreshing
while the bubbles
where running
down my back,"
He wrote:
"Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold"
The word refreshing and the description of the bubbles running down my back were suppose to create a sensation.
The title also has a big emphasis on the word SORRY is suppose to create a sense of great
importance just like he did with his poem. It is suppose to be mocking his form. You do not need to apologize for something small like eating someone’s plums and using someone’s shampoo. Finally, the title of the poem serves as the first lines of both poems.