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I think that I shall never see ‘round here A poem surpassing Sara’s … love of beer. But we shall try a sonnet as she ask’d Although this rhyme scheme’s already gone flat.
You see, I’m more a free verse kind of guy And rhyming couplets make me really ill I bet you think I should’ve just said “cry” But that sing-song crap is poetic swill.
Which brings us back to Canadian beer And Sara’s fondness for all things Canuk. I wish other MD’s were as sincere As she is when she says “Good Bye, Good Luck.”
She plans to leave us, don’t you know it’s true It galls us like some foul and bitter brew.
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As an additional challenge, why don't you try to make it 10 syllables per line, in iambic pentameter? Then it shall be a true sonnet to make Shakespeare jealous.
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*snicker* It is ten syllables per line. But it's only iambic if you really force it. (Which I think was partly the point.)
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Ack! Iambic pentameter is not about syllables - it's about patterns of stress!
An iamb is a foot with a short syllable and a long syllable, or an unstressed and a stressed syllable, in that order. Pentameter means there are 5 feet per line. Yes, this means a line of imabic pentameter with no exceptions will have 10 syllables.
There are many exceptions that do not take a line out of iambic pentameter. Sometimes an unstressed syllable can be removed, which will tend to suggest a pause or cesura in that spot. There are others.
But, when thinking of meter, think in feet, not syllables. 5 iambs, not 10 syllables.
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