Miranda brought rhymed verse back into vogue
his Hamilton's the smash hit of the age
to cast a banker as a dashing rogue
infused new spirit into New York's stage
pentameter trips lightly off the tongue
when Mamet's characters connive and scheme
but Hamilton's libretto must be sung
to conjure history as in a dream
like hemlines, literary fashions drift
one bad review could ring your curtain down
but if they're raves, the format gets a lift
the playwright's hailed the hero of the town
Elizabethan sonnets are passé
but if they're coming back's not mine to say
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