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I've written a sonnet, and I need some help?
Alright, first of all, I need to know if this is in iambic pentameter. I do not know how to judge if it is or not, so if you could explain, please do. Secondly, if you see anything that I could change without ruining the rhyme or meter, please let me know. Four of the odd words are defined below.
Think About It
What sane person would want life uninformed?
Can we live while knowing that we know naught?
Would we cert know how much we need to mourn,
Or would we not know that we have learned zot?
For ignorance is a bitter rival,
Because its defeat is, in fact, absurd
If it is not first seen to be libel,
Though the delict is not of written word.
And none can certainly see that we’d ken
the true crime committed against our minds.
This may easily be true of all men,
And no one knows the sin that none can find.
Should we not be upset by what we miss?
Why no. Don’t you see? Ignorance is bliss.
Cert-certainly; surely
Zot-nothing
Delict-crime
Ken-to understand
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well, you have the pentameter down pat, however you are not there with the iambic portion.
Iambic is when there is a short syllable (weak) followed by a long syllable (strong). In Iambic Pentameter it would be short long short long short long short long short long.
Your Diction for this particular Sonnet is not bad, i have not changes that I would make that would not mess the measure up, however, the measure needs some work to be Iambic.
The overall meaning of the Sonnet is great, to achieve this it takes skill.
- 1 decade ago
since i HAVE to answer i s'pose i will.
like I said before, i really like this but i haven't studied sonnets or w/e this is. so i really honestly couldnt tel you.
love it though.
Deffinitly love the title!
/Meg