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The Princess Bride - Week 2
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Minute 8
Humperdinck rules all
But the one thing he can’t have
Is Buttercup’s heart
Finding no solace
In future matrimony
She goes for a ride
She meets three strangers
Small, medium, and giant
Circus performers
No village nearby
The giant puts her to sleep
The little man plots
Minute 9
Grumpy, little man
Piece of fabric in his hand
Plotting to start war
Kidnap the princess
Kill her on Guilder frontier
What could go awry?
Co-conspirators
Question killing the princess
Little man rages
What is right or wrong?
The help was not hired to think
Must be put in place
Giant was not hired
For his brains, but his huge size
Hippopotamic
The sot has spoken
Reminded of drunkenness
Couldn’t buy brandy
Minute 10
Now it’s Fezzik’s turn
To receive his reprimand
No friends, brain, help, hope
Threatened to be sent
Back to his home in Greenland
Where he had no job
Fezzik, Inigo
Salve their esteem with rhyming
Frustrate small leader
Minute 11
Prisoner princess
And her trio of captors
Sail under the moon
The concerned Spaniard
Continuously glancing
Behind their small boat
Someone follows them
Through eel-infested waters
Inconceivable
They shall all be hanged
Assures Princess Buttercup
Bold and defiant
Vizzini confirms
Guilder and Florin don’t know
Worry starts to build
Minute 12
While the three discuss
Mystery man tracking them
Princess overboard
Someone should get her
One can’t swim, one dog paddles
One gets angrier
Ominous sound grows
Princess realizes mistake
Shrieking eels draw close
Minute 13
Floundering princess
The eel charges toward her
Suddenly ceases
The narrator stops
Eyes the scared, concerned grandson
Suggests that they stop
Grandpa loses spot
Fumbles around ‘til he finds
Shrieking, charging eel
Minute 14
Fezzik clobbers eel
Soaked and shivering princess
Receives new wrist ware
Chasing vessel nears
Inigo posits he’s using
The same wind they use
Vizzini declares
A premature victory
Spies destination
Only Fezzik’s strength
Allows them to go this way
Vertical cliff climb
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