Can someone please help me with writing a sonnet?

I had to do these poems for class. It pretty much follows your guide lines, minus the rhyme scheme.

Ha, were you expecting to take my poems? ^-^

Anyways, I'll include my research under the poems.

Taking Time to Smell the Roses

Red crimson roses catch wanderer's eyes.

To capture attention with pretty lies,

To lure you to marvel at the rare grace

Of lovely roses, uncommon in place.

But do we just notice their shallow traits?

For there's more to a rose than we do state;

Behind a sweet face, much darkness can hide

What no one must see, what's truly inside.

What layers do shield, sharp thorns strive to mask

What great secret they hide, or so may I ask?

Dark humor kept veiled behind a kind ruse

A beautiful face that serves to confuse

One must choose their way to approach said rose:

To be cut by thorns or wonder it's woes.

Temper of the Clouds

A soft marshmallow glides across the sky.

Roar, crash, destructive light; it's humor's wry,

Sharp, striking shards of ice; its heart's so cold,

But the graceful beauty never grows old.

Thrashing, crying, lamenting it's worth,

Pouring it's angry tears over the earth.

It strikes with venomous missiles of light,

But after roars and rumbles comes contrite.

Bitter fragments of ice buffet your face.

Wind howls, cold arms over you in an embrace,

A cold, flat, untouched gesture made to mock.

But its beauty's left in white aftershock.

Floating like a light leaf in a crystal lake,

My lovely cloud's gone, blue sky in its wake.

Research:

Basic outline is as following-----------------

• First quatrain: An exposition of the main theme and main metaphor.

• Second quatrain: Theme and metaphor extended or complicated; often, some imaginative example is given.

• Third quatrain: Peripeteia (a twist or conflict), often introduced by a "but" (very often leading off the ninth line).

• Couplet: Summarizes and leaves the reader with a new, concluding image.

One of Shakespeare's

best-known sonnets, Sonnet 18, follows this pattern:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,

Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The argument of Sonnet 18 goes like this:

• First quatrain: Shakespeare establishes the theme of comparing "thou" (or "you") to a summer's day, and why to do so is a bad idea. The metaphor is made by comparing his beloved to summer itself.

• Second quatrain: Shakespeare extends the theme, explaining why even the sun, supposed to be so great, gets obscured sometimes, and why everything that's beautiful decays from beauty sooner or later. He has shifted the metaphor: In the first quatrain, it was "summer" in general, and now he's comparing the sun and "every fair," every beautiful thing, to his beloved.

• Third quatrain: Here the argument takes a big left turn with the familiar "But." Shakespeare says that the main reason he won't compare his beloved to summer is that summer dies — but she won't. He refers to the first two quatrains — her "eternal summer" won't fade, and she won't "lose possession" of the "fair" (the beauty) she possesses. So he keeps the metaphors going, but in a different direction. And for good measure, he throws in a negative version of all the sunshine in this poem — the "shade" of death, which, evidently, his beloved won't have to worry about.

• Couplet: How is his beloved going to escape death? In Shakespeare's poetry, which will keep her alive as long as people breathe or see. This bold statement gives closure to the whole argument — it's a surprise.

And so far, Shakespeare's sonnet has done what he promised it would! See how tightly this sonnet is written, how complex yet well organized it is? Try writing a sonnet of your own.

Poets are attracted by the grace, concentration, and, yes, the sheer difficulty of sonnets. You may never write another sonnet in your life, but this exercise is more than just busywork. It does all the following:

• Shows you how much you can pack into a short form.

• Gives you practice with rhyme, meter, structure, metaphor, and argument.

• Connects

you with one of the oldest traditions in English poetry — one still vital today.

You can look at this link for more help,--------------------------------

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/writing-a-so...

The passage seems to say your dad died. Last gift before he died expiration Funny thing is the money you asked for would be gone faster than the charger's usefulness faded. As a sonnet goes, I'm not sure of the rules.

For Poor Haneesh!

Dear, I will answer your request in verse,

To show how Libby can write a sonnet.

There's no need for you to beg and coerce

Sit down and put on your thinking bonnet.

A wealth of facts are at your finger tips,

Just arrange them in some sort of order.

You may find your work able to eclipse

The most diligent swat and school border.

The road to success; one you walk alone.

Where you must recognise your unique work,

And find some pride in an effort your own.

Grandeur; never achieved by a lazy jerk!

Yes.... this poem has really pissed you off!

I so enjoy, at your expense, a scoff!

Hello need help writing a Shakespearean Friendship Sonnet....Must be 14 lines, must have 3 Quatrains, must follow the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG, If not friendship related love,envy,heartbreaking,friendship,family,passions,favorite things.And to be in Iambic Pentameter