Hey, I need to write a sonnet for English class... It doesn't have to be about love and I'm not so good at creative writing =P What should I write about?
I need to write a Sonnet
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Do something that interests you. A sport, a person,or a historic figure. Or me if you really want.
Sonnets are short, sweet and rhythmic. 14 lines is a bit too much for writing about something like...your dog and it restricts you from writing about a large subject such as the history of the earth. Describe something close to you that you feel has enough potential to fill fourteen lines and enough variety to keep it rhyming and varied. You could write about your house, you could write about a place. You'd probably get marks for doing somehting clever such as writing about your kitchen.
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While I'm on this thread, I need help with something similar, I'm trying to write a song for my band but have absolutely no idea for lyrics, anybody got any tips?
Sonnets are traditionally written from a male perspective about a woman he loves but who is absent at the moment. Look up Shakespeare sonnets 130,18 and Phillip Sidney 'Astrophel and Stella' sonnet 1. these are typical sonnets and are very representative of the form, they have strict rhyming schemes and tend to use love as a metaphor for politics, writing itself and loads of other things. Robert Frosts 'Design' is a more modern veresion. It really depends of how close to the traditional sonnet your teacher wants you to stick but the best advice is probably to pick something you're passionate about then come up with an unusual metaphor to describe it and a snappy closing couplet
Hope that helps
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Oh, and It doesn't matter that much, but it needs to be in Shakespearean form (3 quatrains and a couplet)
The end of lines in shakespearean sonnets rhyme like this: a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g (a rhymes with a, b with b, etc.)