The bonds of a close Friendship.

Dreams for the Future.

– There must be 14 lines.

– There must be three stanzas of four lines each.

– There must be a final couplet (two lines that rhyme).

Shakespeare’s sonnets were written in iambic pentameter. That means 10 “feet” with two syllables each, stressed as follows:

da-DUM-da-DUM-da-DUM-da-DUM-da-DUM

Rough WINDS do SHAKE the EARly BUDS of MAY

The lines must rhyme at the end, in either of two ways:

abba cddc effe gg OR abab cdcd efef gg

Maybe you could write about how hard it is to write a sonnet!

“Our teacher asked us to write a sonnet,

But I can’t remember how, doggone it! …” 🙂

http://library.advanced.org/3721/poems/forms/sonnet_def.html

Below is another great site that if you click on the alphabetical list – You can read sonnets by great poets.

http://www.sonnets.org/

Hope these are helpful to you…. I know it’s hard but you have been in love. You love your parents and grandparents – don’t you….

Jean Jean built a machine

Hank Hank turn the crank

Joe Joe make it go

Art Art cut a fart and blew it all apart!