Pop Sonnets is an outgrowth of Didriksen's popular Tumblr, where every Thursday, he reinterprets a popular song via Shakespearean dialect and through the rigid 14-line iambic pentameter of an English sonnet. And with Pop Sonnets, the 27-year-old New York software developer has achieved something funny, intelligent, and much more complicated than a few couplets about pickles. It's just lines with rhymes at the end of them.'ĭidriksen went on to other, more involved ways to use that rhyming talent, including a high-school band and a songwriting stint as part of his bachelor's degree in music technology. Which is ridiculous, but this is what you have to write about as a 6-year-old. There's a poem dug up recently - I wrote an ode to pickles. 'When I was little, I used to write my grandparents poems. 'I grew up with a knack for rhyming,' he says. Pop Sonnets author Erik Didriksen has been writing poetry most of his life. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Pop Sonnets Subtitle Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs Author Erik Didriksen
