" Sonnet 197" have you found what you were looking for in love? Care to C/C?

Finding what you sought in love and putting it on paper is a blessing!

Sir Questor

I have spent much too long with this, but to me, it is

worth it if I can learn from people like you and better

myself as a poet.

Good sonnet all in iambic pentameter, most of it rich

in imagery and well flowed iambs, or meter, of however

you say it.

Line 4---- sensual is three syllables per howmanysyllables.com

but I think you did the right thing. I have taken liberty on ones

like that and it can go both ways 2 or 3 in sound depending on

the way one speaks and pronunciation. Lines 8 and 9 were

stretches, but I learned of a new obscure word 'deified' and like

it,, my prob was more in the use of 'Not to be' and then 'but to be'

with deified sandwiched between what I viewed was a weak support

of meter.

You are a quality poet, and too, I know I can say the above and not

get hammered for it, or have to up my bp meds cause you lose it,

in other words, you take c/c like man.

Btw: this is just my perspective. Not saying it is right, though I think

I brought up some salient points that helped me for sure.

Congrats

Absoultely loved the central quatrain...deified is such an awesome word in all its connotation.

Really like dthe entire thing, though I have to admit the last line of your closing couplet didn't end this as smoothly, or even lucidly, as I'd prefer. Perhaps "...........Or eyes, to fathom proving quite the feat."...just doesn't feel as forced...such a nitpick in the big picture tho'! Nice job Questor!