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Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

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Ala bam a

0 posted 2001-03-07 08:17 PM

In trying to compose a sonnet
As done by the finest of poets
I have to ponder upon it
Quite a bit even though it's
Simple to write one I've heard
Fourteen lines in all
The first line rhymes with the third
The second and fourth should fall
In rhyme in such a way
That a-b-ab, etc.
So on and so forth say
Whatever the thought is to be
But it never turns out like I want it
So what the hell, Pissonnet

Local Rebel
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since 1999-12-21

Posts 5767
Southern Abstentia

1 posted 2001-03-07 08:46 PM

A limerick is a short rhyme,
composed of five little lines,
where in the middle
the author may diddle
But rhyme at the end just in time..

(wrote it in college toe -- you reminded me with your pissonnet) lol

Moon Dust

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since 1999-06-11

Posts 2177
Skelmersdale, UK

2 posted 2001-03-07 08:56 PM

hahaha

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Lone Wolf
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since 2000-03-16

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Lansing, MI USA

3 posted 2001-03-07 08:58 PM

ROFL . . . you tell 'em, Toe!!

LW

Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

Kethry
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Victoria Australia

4 posted 2001-03-08 03:46 AM

Toe,
if there's one thing I've learned about sonnets it's that they have to be in iambic pentameter. That means ten syllablles five unstressed and five stressed in alternating order. So as much as I like this piece even the hook at the end, it is not a sonnet.
Still it's good to see ya back, even if you do insult me, so there you go Sam I am *G*
Kethry

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suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2001-03-08 10:54 AM

I think I've hit that same conclusion on more than a few of my poems, regardless of the format or lack thereof! LOL. Thanks for the grins, Toe... you and Hawk could give classes? *G*

sans38
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since 2001-03-03

Posts 117
Westland, Michigan

6 posted 2001-03-08 10:58 AM

LOL...this put a huge smile on my face!!

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

7 posted 2001-03-08 03:22 PM

Toe, beneath your jovial lines
sparks a poety that shines
don't try to hide from your talent,
and please, please don't pissonit!

Corinne

Dee
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since 2000-08-19

Posts 2330
Queensland, Australia

8 posted 2001-03-08 04:14 PM

Toe, I've always thought of sonnets as romantic...oh well maybe I was wrong.

Dee

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