Sonnet
My First SonnetI'm trying hard to form this sonnet right,But words do not come very easily.Bewildered by the iambs I feel fright.Help me to conquer this insanity. Pentameter is five feet in one...
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Goodness me...there's a lot of questions here, and I haven't even looked at the poem yet! OK...I'm going to start with the comments, and then look at the poem...First up, you shouldn't let any of the...
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One quick point: You don't as a rule stress words (or syllables) in a line of poetry that you wouldn't stress in normal speech. That said, reading "For the trochee the stress is in reverse"as"for THE...
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It helps me, certainly!! I'm just a happy amateur here, so any help I can get helps me immesurably! Thanks, Howard...Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end...Why not try a new...
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Thank you to you both, soulsease and Howard for the time you have spent on my work, and the work of others. You have given me more understanding of a sonnet and I now feel that I am able to approach...
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