Friday, December 5, 2008

"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books"...a tribute to R&J in sonnet

Review: A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter (5 unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable, making a total of 10 syllables per line). In a sonnet, every other line rhymes, and the last two lines are a couplet.

It is also referred to (as per a quiz answer yesterday) as iambic petermeter. But, I am getting off subject. Here you go:

The yearly time hath come, when lovers swoon
And high school students giggle at the sound
Of Romeo dear and his spritely tune--
About his love for women, girls, and hounds.
On and on he goes of love that's stronger
Than a thousand arrows from Cupid's bow.
Girls' looks do baffle this heart-led monger
Who seems to eas'ly fall before he knows
A lick about the girl he sees so bright
That stars and moons and suns would scarcely see
Her face for fear of paling in her sight.
Alas!--it seems wise to from this rogue flee.
Yes, Romeo, I'll admit oft looks daft--
The constant victim of a blind bow-boy's butt shaft!

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