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Not A Poet Member Elite
since 1999-11-03
Posts 3885Oklahoma, USA |
Ok, this is not really my classwork because I already posted this one in CA a long time ago. I just thought it might be a suitable example with maybe a little insight on what goes into a sonnet. I'll try to get the assignment soon. Sonnet For A Sonnet A question with it's answer in due time, And fourteen lines is all that one may use, The meter must be true, each line must rhyme - Requirements strict enough to stress one's muse. Then how might we express the things we ought To say in verse so short and bound so tight By rules to convolute coherent thought? It's surely difficult to write one right. But study of the masters, perseverance, And practice, given talent, will succeed - Enable one to write in strict adherence - A feat of great accomplishment, indeed. Oh Sonnet, it's so clear that I love you, I only wish that you would love me too. |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Aw, Pete, I'm sure she does love you! Good example.  God bless America, my home sweet home. |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Oh I remember this one very well Pete! It helped me a lot during the very first sonnet class we had.  Wonderful to read it again and great to see you back in class... oh and NO gum in my hair this time you hear!  |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Nice writing, Pete. You jumped up to 11 syllables in two lines....otherwise, it is excellent. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Interesting - I've read through this a couple of times... It's a great overview of a sonnet in sonnet format, of course...  My observations... The word perseverance is pronounced differently with local dialects. Some may say perSEVerANCE, and some may say PERseVERance... Our American dictionaries tell us to pronounce it with the accent on the first and third syllables - making it by definition a trochaic LONG-short dimetric word... Ad-HER-ence is trochaic as well... I don't know it that's what Mike is talking about here, but that's what jumps out at me.. (p.s. - Someday I'll give you my stuff to critique too??) |
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Not A Poet Member Elite
since 1999-11-03
Posts 3885Oklahoma, USA |
Hi Teach, I pronounce both words the way your dictionary says. If there are other ways then it would indeed be difficult to read this. I think what he refers to is those words make both lines 9 and 11 have an extra, unstressed syllable at the end, or rhyming feminine endings. But I really like to do those at times. Thanks, Pete |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
Hehe. I missed this one. Glad you resurrected it. ~Linda |
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