Spenserian Sonnet!
By Still_I_Cry 5 Comments
Here's my attempt at writing one. The rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc, it is only 9 lines long. It was actually kind of hard building the whole thing off of so few rhymes. The first 8 lines are Iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line, I'm not very good with the whole stress, unstress thing though) and the last line is an Alexandrine (12 syllables).
So yeah, hope whoever reads it enjoys it :D
Shhh! Quiet, quiet. These woods are all mine.
The prey, a white doe, evasive is she.
Around, bloated birds lay in a neat line.
Lo, trees weep bitterly for the lovely
Doe. She trips through decayed brush toward me,
The leaves green at her touch. Pure. Quoth the beasts,
“Beware the bow fair doe!” Unheedingly
She sits, weary. My arrow is released.
It kills. She is mine. The forest weeps while I feast.