![]() ![]() She adds a fifteenth “half line” to the sonnet. What she experiments with (which is why I say almost to the rhyme scheme) is the number of lines. She dispenses with meter, but almost keeps to the rhyme scheme of the typical Shakespearean Sonnet. Her latest post is Subway Sonnet ( as of Sept. Third, she writes fun posts and has the same last name as a favorite high school teacher (way back when). In fact, I have a Master’s Degree in Children’s Literature. First, she writes traditional poetry, which is to say, she tests herself against the disciplines of rhyme, meter and form. Just noticed a new netizen blogger – Karin Gustafson. Readers familiar with Shelley’s Ozymandias will pick up on a good many echoes. I wrote most of this yesterday, on the drive home, sparked by the bleak landscape of November’s first snow. This isn’t at all the way I started, but once the idea got under my skin, I had to. I can’t bring myself to write any other kind. As promised, a sonnet - Shakespearean.If only you could see him- How he grins!.Whose sneering adumbrated mankind’s sins.How fleeting be your joys, how little worth!”Īnd with him daily praised this hell on earth ![]() Look on God’s works, ye blithesome, and despair: The love that strips the unrepentant bare. “Tempt not,” said he, “the wrath of righteous love. Who suffered not the children at their play
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