beg your pardon son

jeremy says he detests the villanelle
the repetition grates upon his senses
he wants the poem to go down to hell
with all its jangling rhymes and tenses
the sonnet seems to him a better form
no repetitive refrains to make him scoff
it too contains a format and a norm
but does not it seems set my lad off
the verse that annoys him contains repeats
of phrases he does not want in his mind
he does not mind the rhythm or the beats
but echoes i gather he does not want to find
so this i send to him in hopes that he'll forgive
those other verses that i will make live