December 2011
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Wwhether 'tis nobler in the mind: Eridan and...
Given the success that my previous poem-related analysis had, I thought I might try another based on my latest poem. I’m not planning on making this a regular thing, since I want to keep this blog completely about the sonnets, but I might consider making a separate blog for my English-major-y rambles if enough people are interested. Thoughts?
A few months ago, I wrote this poem in which I...
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Can't sleep? Write about Dave.
This doesn’t really have anything to do with sonnetstuck, so feel free to ignore it. I’m just awake for no reason and in light of the theme of my latest poem, I felt like writing some stuff about Dave. So here we go.
Like most people, when I read the “You don’t just make a clone of yourself to live in a dead end existence where it has no chance to thrive as an ...
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New poem very soon!
I just have a couple things to say about this one. First of all, it’s a very different type of sonnet from the Shakespearean ones I usually write. This is what’s known as an Onegin stanza (or Puskin sonnet). It has a weird rhyme scheme, and it’s in iambic tetrameter, but has an added syllable on certain lines. I just wanted to experiment with something different, and hopefully it...
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Doctor Scratch, or, A Vision in a Dream.
On Alternia did Doctor Scratch A brutal, warlike world devise; His marks, the hapless trolls, were conned, From vicious snares could not abscond, Entrapped by truthful lies. So seeded he the trolls’ unrest: By blood and caste they were oppressed; And there were trials tortuous and cruel That slaughtered many a soul that might arise; And here were tyrants, ruthless in their rule, With...