My college-level English class was assigned to write a sonnet and this is my final draft. This was definitely a difficult assignment for me to write because not only do I not usually use end rhyme in my poems, but I also don't usually write in ten syllable lines. However, I am glad that I was forced to write this poem because it did turn out fairly well. Everyone had to read their sonnet out loud to the class, but mine was the only one that got clapped to. :-)

Sonnet

That fated morning, so darkly innocent!
A loathsome assignment to scholars poor
Our once sweet English teacher did present:
"A short sonnet to write, a joy I assure,
Just twelve lines, a heroic couplet, too
And the thing that will surely you excite,
My darling AP students, just for you
In iambic pentameter you'll write!"
"The horror! The horror!" each scholar screamed,
Aloud moaned we, "Our assigned task is doomed!"
Hopeless and gloomy our position seemed,
Then on the horizon, the solution loomed:
Write about sonnets, their qualities praise,
For therein the elusive "well-done" lays.



*Note from me: Line 9 is an allusion to something from the book "Heart of Darkness," a novel we read in class.

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