Done in blank verse, the most common style in Polish dramatic poetry. *grins*
Oh Apollonia! Is there part of you
that rings with truth? Even your year of birth
is fabricated, lost to fraudulence;
but who we know for sure is Pola, queen
of the rococo, clad in silk and jewels,
your artifice at constant war with art,
Casati with a greater range and skill.
Mercurial, the public turned on you
When Valentino's death spawned your display;
Oh Apollonia! No one understood
your brash, flamboyant style, as yet unmatched.
and for good measure:
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