The Sonnet
This structure is a fourteen line piece
with a specific rhyming pattern and meter.
The rule is to keep to a set of alternate
and/or iambic pentameter variations.
A good example of this is breaking up the stanza into an 8 - 6 verse style,
and then forming a structure as a songwriter would with a basic AABA method , i.e. Verse Verse Chorus Verse.
Using this principle the sonnet may follow a rhyming pattern such as ABBAABBA for the first 8 lines and then CDECDE and GG which permits the 14 line sonnet to be broken into 3 groups of 4 and 1 final group of 2 rhyming lines to finish.
My Example
Alone By The Creek
By Paul McCann
I escaped down to the creek today .
I lost my way and wished you would come
I sat down on the grass in the sun,
In the silence I began to pray .
In the water some stepping stones lay
where my reflections just had begun .
Your presence I felt had overcome,
I was not lost and alone that day .
I walked away and stood on a stone .
In the water I saw the blue sky.
You came to me in a quiet place.
In reflective prayer I'm not alone
with the sound of water flowing by,
on stepping stones I walk in Gods grace .
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