Her Wilting Regrets

By mcscraic

Wed, 24 Mar 2021
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Her Wilting Regrets
By Paul McCann

 

She was found to wilt .
With words she scours .
Ivory towers .
The thick walls she built .
Well tarnished with guilt .
She hides , she cowers .
In empty bowers .
With her red wine spilt .
She can never sip .
And she has not health .
She's buttoned her lip .
She hears no one else .
In walls ten miles thick .
she grieves for herself

 

 

 

This structure is a fourteen line piece called a sonnet .

It has 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.

 

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