Just weighing in on this sonnet assignment... Personally I am not a fan of writing them. Mine's now done and I will say that when you finally find the one way of saying something that fits all the requirements (10 syllables, right number of stressed and unstressed syllables and they're in the right places and it works with the rhyme scheme), it's incredibly satisfying. I would say that the frustration and time that goes into finding that one way is probably not worth it, considering it ends up being not really what I meant to say. It is kind of cool, now that it's done, that I managed to write anything aside from gibberish nonsense with all these restrictions and I'm rather proud of myself, but it comes across to me as being a really watered-down version of what I intended to convey. Besides which, I'm pretty sure I didn't write about the correct thing. I think they can be about death and love and memory and such, and mine's kind of about the memory of the death of love. Oh well, I hope it goes over ok, because I'd really rather not write another one.
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what?
they had to rhyme?
UGH.
-rae
I actually don't think they did have to rhyme. I wikipedia'd sonnet and it told me that shakespearean sonnets follow a rhyme scheme like abab cdcd efef gg. so I did that.
Yeah, if you are following a strict Shakespearean Sonnet form they do need to rhyme in that pattern, and given The Earl of Essentially is restricting our topics and making us write in iambic pentameter, I would assume we need to use the rhyme scheme.
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