Press space to switch between poems. Read the notes and credits if I have confused you :3 Please read all of the notes and credits if you have no idea what the heck these poems are. The vegetable poem is just a bonus, by the way (for the judges in the poetry contest). It isn't for extra credit or points or anything. I just really loved that poem and put it here for your entertainment. Enjoy! Barry B. Benson is Q U A K I N G
All poems by me. I had to make a poetry book, and these two poems were in it! IF YOU STEAL, I WILL DESTROY YOUR BLOODLINE. I put my poems in this project for a little poetry contest, but you can just read and enjoy the poems. A sonnet, by definition, is a poem of fourteen lines using a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG, in English typically having ten syllables per line. Our sonnets had to be based off of Sonnet 18, which was written by William Shakespeare. It goes like this: (The letters are showing you the rhyme scheme) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? A Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A And summer's lease hath all too short a date: B Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, C And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; D And every fair from fair sometimes declines, C By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd D But thy eternal summer shall not fade E Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, E When in eternal lines to time thou growest; F So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G So long lives this and this gives life to thee. G Pretty deep, eh? Yeah. A sestina, on the other hand, is different. A sestina is a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. It really means that there are six words that go at the end of every line. There are six lines in a stanza. So one word per line, but there are six stanzas in the entire poem. The words have to change position in every stanza. For the Sestina of the Bee that I made, I have decided to make a little list of the word numbers. They do not rhyme (that's fine because not all poems need to rhyme). If you're still confused, search up sestinas. Okay, so here is the list of the six words. 1: Bee 2: Sting 3: Stripes 4: Honey 5: Wings 6: Work Sestinas can be pretty confusing. I love poetry, in case you haven't noticed, so I guess you can call me a nerd. If you read this entire thing, I bless you. :3
