Sonnet

__Sonnets: My Love is True; I Swear__ **Write an original Shakespearean sonnet about:** **Rules:** > Experiment with metaphor in your imagery to flesh out a theme. **15 points possible** || **Sonnet 130** **"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"** **My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;** **Coral is far more red than her lips' red:** **If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;** **If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.** **I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,** **But no such roses see I in her cheeks;** **And in some perfumes is there more delight** **Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.** **I love to hear her speak,--yet well I know** **That music hath a far more pleasing sound;** **I grant I never saw a goddess go,** **My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground;** **And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare** **As any she belied with false compare.** **Suggestions:**
 * True love (doesn’t have to necessarily be about a person)
 * A mockery of “true” love,
 * A Love sonnet to yourself
 * Rhyme Scheme: abab cdcd efef gg (There are rhyming dictionaries online if you need assistance.)
 * Iambic Pentameter: Each line has ten syllables (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, five times).
 * Try to vary the way in which you start your lines (ie. verbs, play with word order).
 * Use enjambment so your poem does not just read to end-stopped lines.
 * 1) Decide on your subject matter
 * 2) Identify three images related to the topic that you can describe (one quatrain each).
 * 3) Write the poem to meet the rhyme scheme; don't worry about iambic pentameter until later.
 * 4) Adjust the lines to make them iambic pentameter.
 * 5) Type the final poem.  ||