Shakespearean Sonnets: Al the Camel

[Quasar889]

In Al Kharid, if you talk to Al the Camel, he'll tell you some poetry that is VERY close imitation of Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the poem Al writes towards his prospective girlfriend, Elly:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shall I compare thee to a desert's day?

 

 

 

Thou art drier and more rough skinned.

 

 

 

Rough sandstorms shake the cactuses away,

 

 

 

And summer's heat defers to autumn's wind.

 

 

 

Sometime to hot the eye of heaven shines,

 

 

 

With Guthix' gold complexion often dimmed;

 

 

 

And every fair from fair sometimes declines

 

 

 

By chance, or desert's changing course untrimmed.

 

 

 

But thine eternal desert shall not fade,

 

 

 

nor lose possession of that sand thou owst.

 

 

 

Nor Zamorak brag thou art in his shades

 

 

 

When in eternal lines to sand thou growest.

 

 

 

So long as camels breathe, or eyes can see,

 

 

 

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here's the real thing (forgive me, but this is by memory of a long lost 7th grade English Class):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

 

 

 

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

 

 

 

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,

 

 

 

and summer's lease hath all too short a date.

 

 

 

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

 

 

 

and often is his gold complexion dimmed.

 

 

 

And every fair from fair sometimes declines,

 

 

 

by chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.

 

 

 

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

 

 

 

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discuss Jagex's inner poet representing their true souls.

 

 

 

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[dude_of_war4]

nice find, bit sad of that camel :?

[gspbeetle]

yes, thats why i hate that camel and pity it... oh god, old shakes... horrible memory from my english lessons... anyway, some of the jagex staffs are from cambridge, so there is no surprise they quote from shakespear to me...

[GrimHams]

yes, thats why i hate that camel and pity it... oh god, old shakes... horrible memory from my english lessons... anyway, some of the jagex staffs are from cambridge, so there is no surprise they quote from shakespear to me...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

True, anyone from Cambridge or england constantly quote shakespeare or blake.. :lol:

[Buzz9]

Al totally rocks

[FuBai]

yes...I thought it was a rather obvious joke tbh. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is one of the best known lines of love poetry. Not quite sure there is much room for comment really.