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Please help! I need help writing a sonet in iambic pentameter.

>> No.10141044

I just brainstormed some ideas for my sonet

Never seen her before
Small crush turns into hige crush
Her smile
Slim body
Curly hair
Inteligent
Mind sais no heart sais yes
Afraid of being hurt
Rookie in love
Forget of all my problems when i see her
Constantly on my mind
Nervous she might think ill of me
Always happier when i think of her

>> No.10141047

First attempt

At which hour i first did lie mine own eyes upon thee

Probably the hardest thing ive done

>> No.10141089

thyere wonce were a mann fromj nantuckett
who lost both his boots in a buqkett

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>>10141031
Posting from dorm near an outlet
There once was an anon, a brainlet
He had homework to to chew
Which he asked /lit/ to do
This thread out to be for containment

>> No.10142533

>>10141047
thy glorious and succulent penis

>> No.10142763

>>10141044
>>10141047
>>10141155
these are not iambic pentameter

>>10141031
OP: if it's meant for you to write sonnets in iambic pentameter, all you have to do is read iambic pentameter enough. After reading all of Shakespeare's plays, the sonnets, and the miniature epics (all at least once, but assuredly repeatedly ad infinitum), and maybe some Yeats or Shelley or whoever you fancy afterwards--after this: you'll be ready. Remember, it has to sound like: baDUM baDUM baDUM baDUM baDUM. Fortunately for you, english naturally tends towards this beat, and by reading Shakespeare you will further immerse yourself in it, and you'll be a better poet. Let me just freewrite one for you right here. Notice the beats. (Also, remember occasionally you might break 10 syllables, even Shakespeare did, but a good poet will find a way around it [and not necessarily by shortening a word and adding an apostrophe, but finding another word and improving the sententia of the poem]).

OP is cool because he tries to be,
But he will never know what truly is.
I wish I could remember that one tree,
Which coincident'lly resembles his.
I have to cut it short 'cause I'm at work,
But hopefully you surely catch the gist.
Now let me find solace in teaching jerks,
'Cause elsewise my whole life just takes the piss.