The English (or Shakespearean) sonnet, is usually arranged into three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.
Example:
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, (a)
I all alone beweep my outcast state, (b)
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, (a)
And look upon mysef and curse my fate, (b)
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, (c)
Featured like him, like him with friends possesed, (d)
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, (c)
With what I most enjoy contented least; (d)
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, (e)
Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (f)
Like to the lark at break of day arising (e)
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; (f)
For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings, (g)
That then I scorn to change my state with kinds. (g)
~ William Shakespeare; Sonnet 29
Your objective is to provide a shakespearean sonnet of your own making.
1st place
General Ronovi Tavisaen
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2nd place
Watchman Lontra Boglach
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3rd place
High Inquisitor "Aequitas" Anderson
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