Help! In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, people die. So it goes. Also animals, concepts, and inanimate objects -- over a hundred of them. So it goes. For this project, choose one of these deceased and compose an epitaph for their headstone. The epitaph must be comprised of two rhyming couplets. A rhyming couplet is a two line stanza that rhymes. The rhyme scheme will be either "aa bb" or "ab ab." There will be no "c." The epitaph must have a fixed pattern of meter. Meter is the number of syllables in each line. Alternating lines -- or all four lines -- must have the same meter. And so on. Epitaphs have meaning. They say something relevant and profound about the dead and the way they died. Your epitaph must have meaning. It must be relevant. It must be profound. Sometimes, epitaphs are also witty. The wit often comes from irony. Your epitaph can be witty. It can be ironic. It can be both. But it must be relevant. It must be profound.



My choice is Edward Derby, the professor who was later shot for stealing a teapot. I want the epitah to reflect how dejected it is to die that way after surving a whole war. Only need help with the actual epitaph.


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