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Old 03-06-2005, 05:46 PM   #1
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My First Sonnet EVER...(Revised)...The Rose Garden

Black widow spider, creeping through the vines
among the thorny stems your web entwines
of roses round, like tiny, crimson drops
and before pricker maze, abruptly stops
the blooms are as red as love is blind
you turn to the paradise left behind
your poison seeps in, the beauty fades
from the garden, where tiny flowers cascade
at your faint touch, firm petals do wilt
and give way to the kingdom you have built
with corpses black, the garden stops to weep
the angel of death lulls gently to sleep
the blossoms rot, their beauty once divine
the last of the petals fall from the vine
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Old 03-06-2005, 05:51 PM   #2
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I absoutely love the imaginery in this, but unfortunately know nothing about sonnets and can't really help you there...
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Old 03-06-2005, 07:02 PM   #3
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'Tis quite good. I was glad to see another sonnet.

The only qualm here is the iambic pentameter. Remember, the beat has to be consistent, so you can't start one line on a stressed syllable (Line and start the next unstressed. Luckily this is easy enough to fix, by moving some of the lesser words around.

Another common error in iambs is phonetic vs. dialect. For example, line 10's iamb is thrown off by "angel," because, although it's two syllables, most people speak it with one syllable. In sonnets you have to make every syllable distinct; I find it useful to read it slowly and tap my finger to the beat.

Other than that, it was very good for a first sonnet. Soon you could try to re-write this and turn the entire thing into clever wordplay.


I hope that was helpful. I didn't critique much of the content because I thought it was good.
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Old 03-07-2005, 08:19 AM   #4
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ilan's got your sonnet's meter problem nailed, msw... that's why i noted in my email that it 'could be better'... i left it to you to find out what 'iambic pentameter' meant... thought you'd checked it out, but looks like not... content/meaning is still pretty good, though...

i'm just wondering about the third line... it reads as if a word is missing at the beginning...

i know how hard you worked on this and you get a big bouquet of red roses from me, along with an 'A' for effort!

love and hugs, maia
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