Sonnet Zero

Sonnet Zero

What makes a poem really Poetry?
What do the words have to say?
Rough words or tough words, vulgarity;
surely are not the right way.

What is the deal with assonance?
What does it add to this poem?
Could it be kind of like consonance;
rhyming with vowels alone?

Similes, metaphors, anything...
Doesn't mean much to most men.
What does "real" Poetry try to bring;
better than common man's pen?

Fortunately we know better now,
or for this sonnet we'd take a bow.


Note: The use of dactylic trimeter instead of iambic pentameter was a conscious decision based on the fact that Poetry is literally a dactyl. In other words, the only rule of sonnets being followed here is the rhyme scheme. Also notice that there is no "Multivalence"  in this poem, as the messages have been hacked with the ax of form and meter!