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Examples of sonnets with iambic pentameters
Examples of sonnets with iambic pentameters











Learning how to write funny sonnet poems is good clean fun - and it costs virtually nothing! I will give a few definitions and then I invite you to try your hand at writing one of your own funny sonnet poems. Sound crazy? (Or unintelligible?) It's not. A sonnet (funny or otherwise) is a poem made up of three quatrains (in iambic pentameter) followed by a concluding couplet. If you'd like to know how to write a sonnet, however, you have to know what it is. Permissions Funny Sonnet Poems: Some Instructions. Poem and Art by Denise Rodgers Copyright©Denise Rodgers All rights reserved. The effort’s huge I have to rack my brain.īut I persist, my fourteen lines now done. I’ve tried to write this new form several times. One ending couplet, after three quatrains. The A-B-A-B form consumes my time.īut I’m not done until there’s fourteen lines. The rhythm flows like wind at my command. And so I sit, today, with pen in hand, Composing three new quatrains with a rhyme. To learn new forms and grow is quite a must, But I will learn it quickly, I can tell. LEARNING TO WRITE A SONNET The sonnet form is old and full of dust And yet I want to learn to write one well. Funny Sonnet Poem #1: How to Write a Sonnet It's a sonnet that explains how to write a sonnet. We'll start with my own instructional sonnet poem.

examples of sonnets with iambic pentameters

You take the archaic form and make it your own.

examples of sonnets with iambic pentameters

That is why I'd rather write some of my own funny sonnets. I usually have to look words up when I try to read them. They were probably wonderful in their time, but the language is practically foreign. Why do I like to write funny sonnet poems? I must admit that I've always thought that sonnet poems were just a tad archaic and boring.













Examples of sonnets with iambic pentameters