SIN-o-NYMS, 1b

Lines Based on Synonyms for the Seven Deadly Sins

SEVEN DEADLY SINS: envy, gluttony, greed or avarice, lust, pride, sloth, and wrath

Envy (b): green-eyed monster*

The green-eyed monster visited

Othello, fatally.

Poor Desdemona learned too late

How rough a guy can be.

And later, learning his mistake,

Othello took his knife:

A stab, some final words, and then—

An end to his sad life.

*Iago utters this phrase in Othello (3.3).