Poetically Prompted

Sonnet

I now write a sonnet of words and thought.
The spelling is hard, the rhyming is hard.
It is not going well, not how it ought.
The words will not flow, I feel it is marred.

Let us try again, we'll write and we'll win.
The words we will use, we'll carefully choose.
I am doing things wrong, let's try again.
If we retry, better words we will use.

Is this a sonnet? That I will not bet.
Should I rhyme within the line or stop it.
Are the syllables correct? Am I set?
Is this a good poem, is it a hit?

I think I have given it a good try.
So now I am done. Here's my goodbye.


14 lines

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Week # 32
Write a SONNET

The main features of sonnets are:

*Bulletb* They must have 14 lines
*Bulletb* Each line has 10 syllables
*Bulletb* A fixed pattern of rhymes
*Bulletb* They consist of three quatrains and a final couplet


An example:

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, 1609

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.