My English teacher made everyone write a sonnet (Shakespearean sonnet). If you don’t know, a sonnet is a form of poetry with rhyming scheme
a-b-a-b–c-d-c-d–e-f-e-f–g-g
and there are three quatrains and one couplet at the end. The lines are in iambic pentameter. The sonnet usually presents some problem in the first two quatrains, deals with it in the third, and concludes with the couplet. Here’s mine.
Our Dream
by Joshua Wu
You might remember still that fateful day,
When married ‘midst of vibrant autumn leaves,
The future shining bright with hopeful days,
You wished a dream upon a crimson leaf.
And now your tragic grave stands bleak and gray,
For ne’er for her this wondrous world was meant.
And frosty death does chill the soul away
And shatter minds in desolate lament.
But now the light that brightens up the heart,
The dream who radiates her mother’s gleam,
Who taught the father bliss and grief apart,
Our daughter means forever more to me;
Though she had taken ‘way my cherished wife,
Our dream was she, my gentle fire of life.
Anyway, since this is my first time writing a poem, I figured I should post it here on my blog.
I really need an A in English ><
