What should i write a sonnet about

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So everybody get out a notepad and pen or open a blank Word document. In one, long, unorganized column, jot down anything and everything that comes to mind. No censoring. No one will see this list but you. These are all well and good, but easy to become redundant about. No pressure, right? Length A sonnet is fourteen lines long. It is not, for example, long enough to tell a story with more than a few characters, nor is it long enough to explain a complicated topic while still having room to make a point about it.

So choose a topic with a relatively narrow focus. That being said, the lines are ten syllables long. Hint: filler makes for slow poems. So yes, choose a narrow topic, but choose one that leaves room for some elaboration and description.

You do, after all, have to fill up fourteen lines with it. As a gauge of length, think of it as a good, relaxed joke and not a knock-knock one told around a campfire. The Personal Factor Now this is something that prose writers, especially, seem to struggle with. We all assume that novels are mostly fiction, but most people assume that poetry is true.

In fact, ha! So should you write about that super intimate secret lurking in your heart? Well, sure, if you feel driven to do so. And the big tip is…. Four intermixed lines that alternatingly rhyme. Two lines at the end that rhyme directly with each other. How about this photo of a duck egg from my Instagram? As you can see, the current caption is pretty uninspired. Oh, how I wished it could hatch! Pots of gold make me wonder what the luck Of the Irish has to do with an old.

To find a yellow chick hidden inside That pecks and slowly cracks open the shell And pokes its head out, no longer to hide. A treasure compared with eggs from a hen! It sure would be nice to have a pet duck— It could live in the kitchen! Then again… What if the newly-hatched bird ran amok?

Now for the Petrarchan sonnet. Egg and what rich treasures it just might hold. If only this egg could hatch—Megabuck Lottery winners, step aside! Hatch, duck! Line 9 is the traditional place for the volta in an Italian sonnet. It would fly around the room! And the cat would meow and it would quack. The final stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is just two lines long, a rhyming couplet.

And I would have to chase it with a broom.