Early last evening, My eldest daughter Hana, asked me to help her write a sonnet. She is now learning Shakespearean sonnet and was asked to write one her own by her English Literature teacher. Apparently she was not taught what a sonnet is, or how it is being written, apart from learning what Quartrains and Couplets are.
A sonnet is a little song, and depending on which sonnet you do, will have to end in rhyme, and will have to conform to the type of sonnet you write. In this case, it is a Shakespearean sonnet; so it has to have 14 lines in all: 3 Quartrains (each with four lines) and a Couplet (with only two lines). A sonnet is also written in iambic pentameter: therefore it should ideally have ten syllables per line. A Shakespearean sonnet would have to rhyme in such a way:
a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g
But of course, I make my own rules.
I wrote a sonnet for Honey via SMS as I drove just now:
Alone again I wish I am not,
and you are back dancing in my thought;
disappearing from my reality,
existing only in virtuality.You are my favourite waste of time,
being together is of course our best crime;
I know that we’ll be together again soon,
for now I’ll be like an owl waiting for the moon.I am going to miss you I cannot lie,
please do not ask the reason why.
I love doing nothing with you,
as I love doing everything too.For now I shall just wait for you my dear,
Until again you and I are near.
Not a perfect sonnet, but she liked it.
Just call me Billy Shakes His Spear.
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