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Love this. A lot. And that is one weird sonnet (not that I would really know what that means…).
Me neither, Diana. That’s why I get picked for these things, you know?
A wreck in your hands, Lyla, is a rose by any other name.
Or something like that
Hey, Sara thought it was pretty funny that you used Shakespeare’s words, even as you told others not to do so. I laughed (again), as I hadn’t caught that. I mean, I had. But not quite the way she saw it.
Funny. I would use this in the writing class I teach, but I think my ultra-conservative parents might gasp.
To be clear, since I may not have been in the previous comment, I don’t teach the parents…I teach their kids. But if word got back that the s word was in their poetry lesson for writing class, well, that just wouldn’t be good.
Ha
I already showed it to my kids. With good effect
So, like… which ‘s’ word, Ann?
I get that. I do.
It just kind of happened.
There is a mistake in your explanation of iambic pentameter: it should be “each iamb,” not “each pair of iambs.” An iamb is a metrical “foot” of two syllables. The stress is on the second syllable of each individual iamb, not on the second syllable of each pair of them, which would contain four syllables.
Oh, geez. I really appreciate you pointing that out. Correction is on the way…
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! I still don’t know what most of this poetese means, but it feels so much less tragic now!!!
Thank you Lyla!!!
I have never understood sonnets. This helps. Perhaps it’s the profanity. (Geez!) And I’m ashamed to admit that I only knew the Shakespeare and the Dickinson sonnets you highlighted.
No shame, Megan.
The infographic required research at … every level.
I do think a genius lurks inside your mind Lyla ; )
This was absolutely hysterical.
I want to see the infographic for sestinas – now THAT would require some profanity.
That might have already happened, Charity, when the Managing Editor suggested a possible sestina Infographic someday
Or not.
Maybe the Managing Editor just imagined it, which is highly probable.