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Shall I compare your life to fleeting dance
You are skillful to mingle with the drum;
And as the social masquerade advance
Sometimes invisible you will become.
And often men suffer in dull silence
And every entity unaware
By default committing to compliance.
But you will to this no restrictions swear,
Nor feel pain alike the anonymous,
Nor belie the sad truth you within hold.
When Death dwells around the corner for us,
Shake your head slow and say, "You, too, I told:"
"So long as every man is alone,"
"So long will mankind to damage be prone."
You are skillful to mingle with the drum;
And as the social masquerade advance
Sometimes invisible you will become.
And often men suffer in dull silence
And every entity unaware
By default committing to compliance.
But you will to this no restrictions swear,
Nor feel pain alike the anonymous,
Nor belie the sad truth you within hold.
When Death dwells around the corner for us,
Shake your head slow and say, "You, too, I told:"
"So long as every man is alone,"
"So long will mankind to damage be prone."
So! This is my very first sonnet! It was an assignment in English class, but I spend a lot of time on it to make sure it fit exactly with the 'framework' of a Shakespearean Sonnet (uhhh, fancy words :b ). If you want to know what the exact requirements were for this one, read the bottom stuff of the this here "artist" comment
This is my first upload for a while, and it's done for school.... Sigh. My life right now seems to be all school! Not that I'm not having fun, it's just... The people I talk to are from my school, the workout I do is for a project in school, I attend school 6 hours a day and I then proceed to do 2-3 hours of homework almost every weekday. Don't consider it complaining, really! I'm actually enjoying studying hard, I'm just surprised by how it's basically my entire life, except for the few parties (that are not school-related too) I go to.
I consider it an interesting time in my life. A lot and yet somehow also nothing is happening in my life at the moment... Very weird!
Okayokayokay, I'm done talking about me xD
Hope you enjoyed the small read and I indeed hope your day will be joyful C=
Requirements for a Shakespearean (English) Sonnet:
14 lines, consisting of three quatrains and one couplet at the bottom.
The fixed rhyme scheme is: abab cdcd efef gg (hence 3 quatrains and 1 couplet).
It must be written in iambic pentameter (means there has to be 10 syllables in each line).
(Oh, and what you're writing preferably has to make sense in some way. I wrote a lot of gibberish first to make the rhyme scheme fit....)
This is my first upload for a while, and it's done for school.... Sigh. My life right now seems to be all school! Not that I'm not having fun, it's just... The people I talk to are from my school, the workout I do is for a project in school, I attend school 6 hours a day and I then proceed to do 2-3 hours of homework almost every weekday. Don't consider it complaining, really! I'm actually enjoying studying hard, I'm just surprised by how it's basically my entire life, except for the few parties (that are not school-related too) I go to.
I consider it an interesting time in my life. A lot and yet somehow also nothing is happening in my life at the moment... Very weird!
Okayokayokay, I'm done talking about me xD
Hope you enjoyed the small read and I indeed hope your day will be joyful C=
Requirements for a Shakespearean (English) Sonnet:
14 lines, consisting of three quatrains and one couplet at the bottom.
The fixed rhyme scheme is: abab cdcd efef gg (hence 3 quatrains and 1 couplet).
It must be written in iambic pentameter (means there has to be 10 syllables in each line).
(Oh, and what you're writing preferably has to make sense in some way. I wrote a lot of gibberish first to make the rhyme scheme fit....)
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Very well done.
I would say I am impressed, but I did not doubt your poetic capabilities, even given the restrictions you mentioned.^^
Still impressive though.
(If I may, I'll plant this editing idea: For more analytical depth and grammatical correctness, make 'masquerade' plural.)
I would say I am impressed, but I did not doubt your poetic capabilities, even given the restrictions you mentioned.^^
Still impressive though.
(If I may, I'll plant this editing idea: For more analytical depth and grammatical correctness, make 'masquerade' plural.)