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<blockquote data-quote="Malhost Zormaeril" data-source="post: 3336515" data-attributes="member: 49669">Are we talking about the real thing?These sonnets are a tad too hard to makeYou're bound to think you've made a big mistakeIf you should follow all the rules therein.Four stanzas, four-four-three-three you must singThe first two should rhyme like A-B-B-A.C-D-C D-C-D you ought to makeThe others, for the sonnet true to ring.And if you should think this is too much workFor your poor player to think on the flyA freer form of poetry would not hurt.In fact, I'd hazard say it's rather wiseTo keep the limit of twenty-five wordsThan make him seek to conquer all those rhymes.(Whew!&nbsp; Took me something like a half-hour to write.&nbsp; I'm proud of myself, actually!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malhost Zormaeril, post: 3336515, member: 49669"] Are we talking about the real thing? These sonnets are a tad too hard to make You're bound to think you've made a big mistake If you should follow all the rules therein. Four stanzas, four-four-three-three you must sing The first two should rhyme like A-B-B-A. C-D-C D-C-D you ought to make The others, for the sonnet true to ring. And if you should think this is too much work For your poor player to think on the fly A freer form of poetry would not hurt. In fact, I'd hazard say it's rather wise To keep the limit of twenty-five words Than make him seek to conquer all those rhymes. (Whew! Took me something like a half-hour to write. I'm proud of myself, actually!) :p [/QUOTE]

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