{"id":6801,"date":"2026-08-14T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/love-is\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:19:29","slug":"love-is","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/love-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Is by Danil Rudoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dr-poem-page\">\n<section id=\"love-is\">\n<p><strong>\u201cLove Is\u201d by Danil Rudoy<\/strong> is a four-line poem from <em>Love Is Poetry<\/em>. A declaration of growing love receives an answer that preserves the affection and abruptly brings the conversation back to dinner.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"poem\">\n<h2>Love Is<\/h2>\n<div class=\"dr-poem-text\">\n<p>\u201cMy love is growing day by day;<br \/>Does yours keep up, sir sinner?\u201d<br \/>\u201cHow could it not? And, by the way:<br \/>What do we have for dinner?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>2012<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"publication\">\n<h2>Publication<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cLove Is\u201d appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/love-is-poetry\/\"><em>Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life<\/em><\/a>, in <em>The Marriage Market<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"comic-turn\">\n<h2>The comic turn<\/h2>\n<p>The first couplet establishes a mock-solemn exchange about love and sin. The answering couplet keeps the rhyme while moving immediately to dinner, allowing domestic appetite and romantic feeling to occupy the same tiny frame.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"related-reading\">\n<h2>Related reading<\/h2>\n<p>Continue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/eternal\/\"><em>Eternal<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poetry\/\">Poetry by Danil Rudoy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/love-poems\/\">Love Poems by Danil Rudoy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/rhyming-poetry\/\">Rhyming Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"rights\">\n<h2>Text and citation<\/h2>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 Danil Rudoy. The poem is published here as the author\u2019s canonical text. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to this page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLove Is\u201d by Danil Rudoy is a four-line comic love poem from Love Is Poetry, turning a declaration of growing love into an ordinary question about dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["dr-evergreen-document","dr-schema-webpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}