08-08-2018, 12:31 PM
Hey Duke,
Yeah I just learned of what a curtailed sonnet was when I researched it at the time. If you hadn't coincidentally mentioned it I wouldn't have known. And while your sonnet is written a foot shorter than the standard pentameter, I believe it's still a Shakespearean. I MAY be wrong but the amount of metric feet does not change the nature of a sonnet so long as there is some sorta switch-up in tone/perspective, is iambic, and follows its rhyme scheme. I have to ask though... why'd you go for tetrameter?
So far I like how you tweaked the penultimate line and replaced the dashes with commas. Oh, and your defense explanation is understood
Happy writing, Alex
Yeah I just learned of what a curtailed sonnet was when I researched it at the time. If you hadn't coincidentally mentioned it I wouldn't have known. And while your sonnet is written a foot shorter than the standard pentameter, I believe it's still a Shakespearean. I MAY be wrong but the amount of metric feet does not change the nature of a sonnet so long as there is some sorta switch-up in tone/perspective, is iambic, and follows its rhyme scheme. I have to ask though... why'd you go for tetrameter?
So far I like how you tweaked the penultimate line and replaced the dashes with commas. Oh, and your defense explanation is understood
Happy writing, Alex