SONNETS ~ SHAKESPEAREAN!  March 11, 2015 - March 31, 2015

Contest Completed

Congratulations

Blue Ribbon ~ 1st prize - Part of Paradise~Sonnet~
Gold Star ~ 2nd prize - Mandolin's Melody
Gold Medal ~ 3rd prize - fourteen lines, pert near wasted
Silver Star ~ 4th prize - Sonnet
Silver Medal 5th prize - Lovelorn.

Details

CALLING ALL SONNET POETS HERE AT THE CAFE!

You can write up to three (3) pieces for the challenge.


Here is an example.

Shakespearean Sonnet Or English sonnet consists of three quatrains, or four-line stanzas, followed by a couplet, or pair of rhyming lines. The rhyme scheme is typically abab, cdcd, efef, gg. The couplet often presents a conclusion to the issues or questions presented in the three quatrains.


A Shakespearean Sonnet Poem

Sonnet 130

(a) My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
(b) Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
(a) If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
(b) If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

(c) I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
(d) But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
(c) And in some perfumes is there more delight
(d) There in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

(e) I love to hear her speak; yet well I know
(f) That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
(e) I grant I never saw a goddess go;
(f) My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground

(g) Any yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
(g) As any she belied with false compare.


NOTE: Please make sure your setting are on "Poetry and "Sonnet" to match with the challenge requirements.

Thank you!


Have fun....can't wait to read them!

Helena (Blue Rose)

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Created Mar 11, 2015