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KingHarvest wrote:Not a sonnet A sonnet (in English) has to be in iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme has to be ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (or if you want to write a Spenserian sonnet, abab bcbc cdcd ee).
(Not dissing your poem, it's just that a sonnet has a very structured form from which you can't really deviate)
KingHarvest wrote:Sorry, that's how we represent rhyme scheme in English. I assumed that it was a common convention.
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, (A)
I all alone beweep my outcast state (B)
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries (A)
And look upon myself and curse my fate, (B)
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, (C)
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, (D)
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, (C)
With what I most enjoy contented least; (D)
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, (E)
Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (F)
Like to the lark at break of day arising (E)
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; (F)
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings (G)
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (G)
I put spaces between the three quatrains and the final heroic couplet so that it's easier to see the rhyme scheme, but normally they're all just written together like you did. A sonnet also needs 14 lines.
ILuvEire wrote:I can't believe you got away studying Shakespeare without learning sonnets!
Eoghan wrote:ILuvEire wrote:I can't believe you got away studying Shakespeare without learning sonnets!
*ehem* I'm still studying Shakespeare... We're supposed to read about the sonnets until today and now, at last I've understood how they're written... We were asked to read the sonnets and try to find a certain pattern. Now that I have reas through the sonnets again I cannot believe that I didn't get the obvious thing... Man I focused on the syllables and completely ignored the rhyming pattern... Jesus...
KingHarvest wrote:Not a sonnet A sonnet (in English) has to be in iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme has to be ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (or if you want to write a Spenserian sonnet, abab bcbc cdcd ee).
(Not dissing your poem, it's just that a sonnet has a very structured form from which you can't really deviate)
KingHarvest wrote:Sorry, that's how we represent rhyme scheme in English. I assumed that it was a common convention.
Emandir wrote:KingHarvest wrote:Sorry, that's how we represent rhyme scheme in English. I assumed that it was a common convention.
I don't know if it's a common convention but we use the same...
KingHarvest wrote:Sorry, that's how we represent rhyme scheme in English. I assumed that it was a common convention.
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, (A)
I all alone beweep my outcast state (B)
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries (A)
And look upon myself and curse my fate, (B)
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, (C)
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, (D)
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, (C)
With what I most enjoy contented least; (D)
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, (E)
Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (F)
Like to the lark at break of day arising (E)
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; (F)
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings (G)
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (G)
I put spaces between the three quatrains and the final heroic couplet so that it's easier to see the rhyme scheme, but normally they're all just written together like you did. A sonnet also needs 14 lines.
Sean of the Dead wrote:KingHarvest wrote:[...]
What the hell? You can't rhyme "possessed" with "least". /ɛ/ != /i/.
Emandir wrote:Rules are made to be broken! You guys sound like old reactionary farts!
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