New piece: A sonnet about sonnets
Sep. 8th, 2006 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassA comment in response to my new piece reminded me that not everyone has sat through as many boring English classes as I have. Consequently, not everyone has an instinctive understanding of sonnet form. So this morning, my muse came to me and said, "wouldn't it be funny to write a sonnet ABOUT writing sonnets?" So I did:
The sonnet is the easiest of poems,
It really is a piece of cake to write,
You take a theme, like birds, or love, or homes,
And then just need to get the meter right.
For every line you need to have five "feet,"
Each one of them should make the sound "da-DUM,"
And don't put in another type of beat
'Cause then your sonnet really will sound dumb.
You also need to put some rhymes in there
To fill three verses, each will have four lines,
Lines one and three, and two and four will share,
And two lines at the end will also rhyme.
And so you see how easily it goes...
If you are William Shakespeare, I suppose.
by Katherine Ashewode (2006)
Comments and other constructive criticism are welcome, as always. And before anyone asks: yes, the highly simplistic language and word-order are absolutely intentional. I was this, as much as possible, to sound like two guys on the street who just happen to be talking about sonnets... in sonnet form.
The sonnet is the easiest of poems,
It really is a piece of cake to write,
You take a theme, like birds, or love, or homes,
And then just need to get the meter right.
For every line you need to have five "feet,"
Each one of them should make the sound "da-DUM,"
And don't put in another type of beat
'Cause then your sonnet really will sound dumb.
You also need to put some rhymes in there
To fill three verses, each will have four lines,
Lines one and three, and two and four will share,
And two lines at the end will also rhyme.
And so you see how easily it goes...
If you are William Shakespeare, I suppose.
by Katherine Ashewode (2006)
Comments and other constructive criticism are welcome, as always. And before anyone asks: yes, the highly simplistic language and word-order are absolutely intentional. I was this, as much as possible, to sound like two guys on the street who just happen to be talking about sonnets... in sonnet form.
