Using Edgar Allen Poe's, "A Dream Within a Dream," I mimicked the style and structure to create a personal parody. The poem contained the simple rules while using a comma and an apostrophe mark.
Take this comma upon the sentence!
And, in separating two independent clauses,
To set of introductory elements, as you read don't forget the pauses--
You are not wrong, when you deem
That a comma will avoid confusion;
Or comes after an interjection.
Yet if hope has flown away
Use a comma when referring a specific day,
Or a number, degree, or direct addresses,
Don't forget the comma in geographic references.
Do I throw a comma in here?
Or will it change the meaning of the sentence?
Use the comma carefully, and as you have intended.
I stand amid the apostrophe,
If I misuse, there will be catastrophe--
Possessives, plurals, and contractions,
How few! But these are the uses and exceptions.
The apostrophe will be used with a plural,
With one anomaly to this rule,
A place or name that ends with S,
You can use the apostrophe as u may have guessed,
O God! Can I not grasp
With other punctuation, is it first or last?
O God! can I not find
The three rules to the apostrophe will blow your mind.
Is that all that I have said?
Keep contraction, plurals, and possessives in your head.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237388
Interesting parody! I am impressed that you were able to include all the rules of commas and apostrophes in this informative way.
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