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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 6 years ago

What do you think of my sonnet?

Oh sweet victory that enters the times

A lovely dance in the passing of nights

A sweet chance to behold the rapid rhymes

Marching my way to my solemnly rights

Oh beauty, is it you that shakes me so

Or the color of your succulent lips

Show me your calm way, so that I may go

Into the sea with your immortal hips

The abysmal waters here are calm

And the holy, white wind blows a cool breeze

My heart is at peace without any harm

I can see what it means to be at ease

So long, pettiness of the undead earth!

No more must I give your life any worth!

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    This has its savable moments, but it really does need some work.

    Try not to repeat "sweet" in the first stanza; think of a synonym.

    If it's a "dance" you're trying to convey, why do you add "marching"?

    Why "rapid rhymes"? What are you trying to say here?

    "solemnly rights"? This is pretty meaningless.

    "immortal hips" is unintentionally hilarious, an obviously forced rhyme with "lips"

    "calm" is an OK rhyme with "harm", though

    Also, you would do well to heed any negative comments and not get all tetchy. Your question was "What do you think of my sonnet?" and a decent poet would realise that this sonnet is deeply flawed, and work on it.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    No more must I give your life any worth!

    Good. One less wanna bt poet in the gene pool.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    The meter totally fails. "Iambic pentameter" does not mean simply "10 syllables per line."

    "Solemnly" is not an adjective.

    "Immortal hips" is a hilarious image, although I doubt you meant for it to make me laugh.

    You used absolutely no punctuation, except in the last two lines where suddenly there are exclamation points galore. WTF?

    You tortured the meaning in order to force the rhyme-word "harm" -- and all for nought, because "harm" doesn't rhyme with "calm" anyway.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    I think it blows.

    And your drunken, ignorant "defense" of it in the comments blows even harder.

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