It Was Just Right

About This Poem

Last Few Words: Goldilocks and the Three Bears makes extensive use of the literary rule of three, featuring three chairs, three bowls of porridge, three beds, and the three title characters who live in the house. There are also three sequences of the bears discovering in turn that someone has been eating from their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and finally, lying in their beds, at which point is the climax of Goldilocks being discovered. This follows three earlier sequences of Goldilocks trying the bowls of porridge, chairs, and beds successively, each time finding the third "just right". Author Christopher Booker characterizes this as the "dialectical three", where "the first is wrong in one way, the second in another or opposite way, and only the third, in the middle, is just right." Booker continues "This idea that the way forward lies in finding an exact middle path between opposites is of extraordinary importance in storytelling".* (*Booker, Christopher (2005). "The Rule of Three". The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826452094. http://books.google.com/books?id=tujDvUEpY10C&pg=PA229.) ............ Of Note: The original Goldilocks was called 'Silverlocks' - an old woman who was a thief... and she was eaten by the bears........ ..... octogram - two stanzas of eight lines - syllable and rhyme format 8a 4B 8a 4b 8c 8c 8b 4B... 8a 4b 8a 4b 8d 8d 8b 4B

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft