Finally, I've written a sonnet! I've been trying for the last year. You can read my first attempt here. It started as a sonnet and ended up free-verse. Up until now I haven't been able to make the 5 beat thing work for me. Still struggle with it. Four beats are much more intuitive. And 14 lines? That's just odd.
I don't think this one is anything special. Trying to work out how faithful I need to be to the iambic meter (de-dum-de-dum-de-dum). Modern sonnets seem pretty loose with it (as I have been). Also wondering if the internal rhyme I've used messes too much with the end-of-line rhymes...
Whatever. It was fun to do. Truth is, I have a Sunday School lesson to write for tomorrow morning and am procrastinating.
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