Poetry Assignment Nine: Write a sonnet.
Well, I can't say that I didn't know that at one point I would be working with specific forms in poetry. My professor made it clear that we would venture into a more structured territory. But I never expected our first poetry form to be the sonnet.
As soon as she started talking about stressed and unstressed syllables, I immediately tensed up...got "stressed" out. It's been so long since I've had to think about an actual form of poetry that I don't really even remember exactly what stressed and unstressed mean. She gave us a rhyme scheme and a about 10 minutes to work on it in class...I gave up after the first two seconds and started brainstorming for something else.
I need a "Sonnets for Dummies" book.
Never mind. I checked Google after typing that sentence and found the sonnets page on the "For Dummies" website. I think I can do this now.
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