The day that Hamlet’s father died

The whole of Elsinore cried

Hamlet thought it was suspicious

The king’s death, was it vicious?

Said Horatio, he saw a ghost

But that is not what mattered most

Alas the ghost was Hamlet’s father

He said Claudius killed him but was it another?

Could Hamlet trust this apparition?

That uttered such an accusation

The king said he died by a poisoned ear

The queen apparently did not shed a single tear

She remarried, less then 2 months later

To Claudius, the spoken perpetrator

His mother suspected in the crime

The ghost said he’d find out, all in good time

The ghost told Hamlet he must swear

But the young prince was still aware

That he might be lying, there could be danger

Of the story told by this translucent stranger

The ghost leaves Hamlet to find a conclusion

Which may have been told by this illusion

The tension was rising in the air

So Hamlet left to find the fair…

…. Ophelia, she was beauty, she was trusted

She was his woman, she was lusted

Hamlet spoke to her like he was mad

She would soon betray him for the love of her dad

Polonius was one of the great men in the land

He was the new king’s right hand man

He and the king were troubled with Hamlet’s lunacy

They asked Ophelia to sacrifice their unity

Hamlet got some actors to act the betrayal

He himself had written a tale

His play showed how his father died

He could use this to find if the new king lied

After the play the king came undone

Hamlet had now started to have fun

The play had proved the king’s bad deed

Claudius would have to bleed

Hamlet goes to visit his mother

To tell the betrayal which killed his father

Polonius listens to the conversation behind a curtain

Hamlet hears and stabs through, hoping to hurt him

Polonius dies and the queen cries

Ophelia in a new form of madness dies

Claudius, afraid of what Hamlet will do

Puts him on a ship to England, to sail across the big blue

As the boat travels across the sea

Hamlet slays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the king’s trusties

Pirates then attack his ship

But he manages to get back to Denmark quick

He returns to Elsinore, revenge on his mind

He would not be very kind

A sword fight was arranged between him and Laertes,

Polonius’s son who hates Hamlet for ruining his family

Claudius and Laertes plot and poison his sword tip

If Hamlet got cut, then he was pipped

In the fight the queen dies from poisoned wine

Hamlet and Laertes are on the decline

They both get poisoned by the sword

But Hamlet manages to stab the evil lord

Laertes forgives Hamlet for killing Polonius

Before they both die, as does Claudius

Horatio is the only survivor of this mess

Fortinbras, the last heir returns from the west

He is crowned king of Elsinore

He honors Hamlet, and remembers him forever more