The Art of a Quatrain Wreck

The Art of a Quatrain Wreck A traditional Shakespearean If you end a line with a word like "sonnet," sonnet has 14 lines and is a sonnet and how not to write one comprised of 3 "quatrains" (4-line stanzas). you're screwed- You'll be like that one kid in marching band. You know the one a When you set about to write your sonnet 9. Leave off comparisons to a summer's day Number 18 has a copyright on it; use it, and somebedy bardy will make you pay. This rhyme is called "slant," since it is not The Shakespeare kind your lit teacher taught you (the chick with big glasses and busy lips): with "lips." There may be other reasons an exact rhyme she said three quatrains and a couplet would do. Ten syllables for each line Eight. Nine Een Shit. A sonnet takes a turn, or "volta" Steer your pentameter iambic, K in the third stanza. In this case whatever that's supposed to mean. for the worse "lambic pentameter" "Shtick" is not People drive quite hard to fuel this shtick- means each line has a sonnet term It's a Yiddish word that means A pain in the assonance, it might seem, 10 syllables, with the stress not to turn your iambs into trochees when your hands reach out to chokerhe a gimmick to make you laugh falling on the second syllable of each pair (called an "iamb") is a rhyming couplet, which is not the same as a small coffee mug The fourth stanza DISCLAIMER The poet makes no warranty of i ambic suitability and expressly denies any attempt to do so. Reading this poem in the sing-song rhythm of the sonnet's "little song" style will make you sound like a robot and look foolish. Do not try this on the subway." We believe reading a poem every day makes your whole life better. If your doctor thinks POPULAR (WELL DONE) SONNETS you're healthy enough for daily poetry activity, start reading When You are Old, William Butler Yeats Every Day Poems today. Nothing is more effective Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley for happy mornings at In My Craft or Sullen Art, Dylan Thomas just $2.99 a year. A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare Write poetry? Write with us. Through the irrepressible joy of play, we offer a place to learn and grow -in skills, knowledge, and community connections. Visit us at Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare Alone, Edgar AXäR Allan Poe Go, Lovely Rose, Edmund Waller Hope is a Thing With Feathers, Emily Dickinson TweetspeakPoetry.com. We won't make you write a sonnet. The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins ts © TweetspeakPoetry.com Graphic elements by Billy Alexander, standard license via stock.xchng HB N The quatrains rhyme in an "abab" pattern (then "cdcd" etc) %24 The Art of a Quatrain Wreck A traditional Shakespearean If you end a line with a word like "sonnet," sonnet has 14 lines and is a sonnet and how not to write one comprised of 3 "quatrains" (4-line stanzas). you're screwed- You'll be like that one kid in marching band. You know the one a When you set about to write your sonnet 9. Leave off comparisons to a summer's day Number 18 has a copyright on it; use it, and somebedy bardy will make you pay. This rhyme is called "slant," since it is not The Shakespeare kind your lit teacher taught you (the chick with big glasses and busy lips): with "lips." There may be other reasons an exact rhyme she said three quatrains and a couplet would do. Ten syllables for each line Eight. Nine Een Shit. A sonnet takes a turn, or "volta" Steer your pentameter iambic, K in the third stanza. In this case whatever that's supposed to mean. for the worse "lambic pentameter" "Shtick" is not People drive quite hard to fuel this shtick- means each line has a sonnet term It's a Yiddish word that means A pain in the assonance, it might seem, 10 syllables, with the stress not to turn your iambs into trochees when your hands reach out to chokerhe a gimmick to make you laugh falling on the second syllable of each pair (called an "iamb") is a rhyming couplet, which is not the same as a small coffee mug The fourth stanza DISCLAIMER The poet makes no warranty of i ambic suitability and expressly denies any attempt to do so. Reading this poem in the sing-song rhythm of the sonnet's "little song" style will make you sound like a robot and look foolish. Do not try this on the subway." We believe reading a poem every day makes your whole life better. If your doctor thinks POPULAR (WELL DONE) SONNETS you're healthy enough for daily poetry activity, start reading When You are Old, William Butler Yeats Every Day Poems today. Nothing is more effective Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley for happy mornings at In My Craft or Sullen Art, Dylan Thomas just $2.99 a year. A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare Write poetry? Write with us. Through the irrepressible joy of play, we offer a place to learn and grow -in skills, knowledge, and community connections. Visit us at Sonnet 73, William Shakespeare Alone, Edgar AXäR Allan Poe Go, Lovely Rose, Edmund Waller Hope is a Thing With Feathers, Emily Dickinson TweetspeakPoetry.com. We won't make you write a sonnet. The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins ts © TweetspeakPoetry.com Graphic elements by Billy Alexander, standard license via stock.xchng HB N The quatrains rhyme in an "abab" pattern (then "cdcd" etc) %24