So I had to write a sonnet and…?
So I had to write a sonnet, and i didn’t know what to write about. So i took one of my old poems and re-wrote is so that it would look like this: tell me what you think!
The trees are brown, stripped of their leaves;
The world is dead, barren, and cold,
So desolte and alone, nothing to hold
But there is one flower, surviving the freeze.
That one flower is soon joined by friends;
Ducks swim by, happy to have found,
Quacking, fuzz balls dancing around;
And green leaves are shining by the bend.
A little girl in with a handful of bread,
Went down to the pond and sat,
Beckoned the ducks with her big, red hat,
And smiled and patted their heads.
and yes, i know that it’s really, really, REALLY, lame!!
cute
you are shy 2 lines
sonnet has 14 lines
here is a little help
3 stanzas of 4 lines (stanza is like a paragraph)
with a closing couplet (2 lines that rhyme and wrap up the poem)
stanza one tells the deed
stanza two tells how you deal with it
stanza three gives solution
couplet wraps it up nicely.
there is also a strict line count of 10 or 11 beats in pentameter
here, go and see for yourself…
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html
click on sonnet and a window will appear with definition and examples…
if you are in a poetry section in your class, save this site for further help on forms
RTV 4-08 Red Hat Society
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