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pentameter is not for me

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I think pentameter is not for me.
tetrameteter does come to me with ease.
I find more ease with four than five, truly,
five feet beseech me. i only wish to cease.

I write a line and count the beat to meet
the number you expect of me, but yet
i count just four, not five confounded feet.
My patience running thin, i'll soon upset.

So hear my plea, dear Bible teacher's wife
go easy when you grade my sonnet please?
I need to raise my grade or find my life
in shambles. Failing English earns a tease.

I doubt this is the best i'll do, so then
i'll write and write again til' it's a ten.
baaaaaaaaaaaah
you all know what this is. an assignment! yaaaaaay :P
Shakespearean Sonnet. iambic pentameter. Gag.
supposedly it's the most natural form of poetry (most similar to how we talk). i don't know any one who talks in five feet, rising meter... or even close to it. we talk in four feet, falling meter, more than that.
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Emma-Hyde's avatar
Haha I totally love this. And I have had teachers assign us a poetry project but it was either follow all the instructions to come up with 12 complete poems or do your own thing. I wrote 41 original poems in a story form for the project. I have yet to put them all up XD