HOW facile 't is to frame the sonnet! See: An "apt alliteration" at the start; Phrase fanciful, turned t'other-end-to with art; And then a rhyme makes first and fourth agree. Ee words enough -- so this next quatrain we Will therefore rhyme to match. Here sometimes "heart" Comes in, as "hot" or "throbbing" to impart A tang of sentiment to our idee. Then the sextette, wherein there strictly ought To be a kind of winding up of things; Only two rhymes (to have it nicely wrought) On which it settles, lark-like, as it sings. And so 't is perfect, head and tail and wings. "Lacks something?" Oh, as usual, but a thought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WRITTEN FOR MY SON, AND SPOKEN BY HIM AT HIS FIRST PUTTING ON BREECHES by MARY BARBER THE SONG OF THE ILL-BELOVED; TO PAUL LEAUTARD by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 7. OF HOSPITALITY by WILLIAM BASSE SHUT OUT by KATHARINE LEE BATES |