If I help, will we get a walk earlier?

We may be on holiday, but my studying must be done as well.
Merlin seems to be trying to get me to put it away now.
This reminds me of an earlier course I did some 7 years ago - it was creative writing and we had to write a villanelle (a poem of 19 lines which has two lines repeated in a regular pattern)
Bess was resting her head on the desk gazing at me and I wrote my first villanelle - I've written several since but this is my favourite - it is called 'The dog's question' and if you click on the extra and zoom in you could read it if you like.