I am writing a Sonnet for English arts it is my first time

Question

toga · Answer

what are some tips

Shadow · Answer

If it can be any kind of sonnet, then you have a lot of freedom when it comes to structure (there's many different kinds of rhyming schemes).

Do you have a particular topic you want to write the sonnet on?

toga · Answer

@shadow wrote:

If it can be any kind of sonnet, then you have a lot of freedom when it comes to structure (there's many different kinds of rhyming schemes). Do you have a particular topic you want to write the sonnet on?

I would like to write it about spring

xxemilianaxx · Answer

can i give you an example because i have a spring one written?

toga · Answer

@xxemilianaxx wrote:

can i give you an example because i have a spring one written?

no thank you but do you have some tips

xxemilianaxx · Answer

focus on the feelings and what's around in the spring like the colors and use descriptive language such as imagery. a sonnet is 14 lines and has a rhyme scheme, each line has usually 10 syllables with stressed and unstressed

Shadow · Answer

If it's spring you want to write about, it can be helpful to write down some thoughts you have about spring. Perhaps describing different aspects of it. Perhaps the joy of spring, or its beauty, what it does for nature, or what it does for people.

It depends on how you write poems but if something isn't necessarily striking you, then you can build some lines out of idea you get.

Fitting the rhyme scheme is usually the harder part that's why.

For example, for the Petrarchan sonnet:
ABBAABBA
CDCDCD

toga · Answer

@shadow wrote:

If it's spring you want to write about, it can be helpful to write down some thoughts you have about spring. Perhaps describing different aspects of it. Perhaps the joy of spring, or its beauty, what it does for nature, or what it does for people. It depends on how you write poems but if something isn't necessarily striking you, then you can build some lines out of idea you get. Fitting the rhyme scheme is usually the harder part that's why. For example, for the Petrarchan sonnet: ABBAABBA CDCDCD

thank you

toga · Answer

@xxemilianaxx wrote:

focus on the feelings and what's around in the spring like the colors and use descriptive language such as imagery. a sonnet is 14 lines and has a rhyme scheme, each line has usually 10 syllables with stressed and unstressed

thanks