Oblonsky’s been unfaithful to his Darya
Or Dolly as she’s usually known,
Behaviour that he really can’t disown.
Now Dolly’s sister Kitty wants to marry a
Count Alex Vronsky, handsome, tall and dark,
Upsetting Levin, a much better bet – a
Farmer and idealist, no jet-setter,
While Vronsky’s of a very different marque.
He’s cuckolded Alexei Karenin,
But Anna’s in a desert like the Gobi,
Banned from society to live unseen,
Though Vronsky parties on, unleashing a
Mad jealousy that urges her to go
Beneath a train – and so ends Anna K.
Refer to: Dec 2020 – Loose ends
Acrostic sonnet
I couldn’t resist the challenge of an acrostic based on the last letters of each line. You have to pronounce ‘a’ in line 12 to rhyme with ‘K’, and the rhyme for line 10 straddles lines 13 and 14… unsatisfactory!