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Tales Of Living (sonnet) by Epluribusunom(op): 10:19pm On Jul 08, 2017
As time pass by us in her feline gait
Yielding each ticking seconds into years
By living our very death so await,
So with time a story we all do write
Behold! As the orient sun to west veers
So is the youthful hair of then hued white.


Living along time, our candles are spent
Where dying to live drive nigher to grave
Time itself thitherward the end do went
By the tide, each sole have its soul to save.


Dying we owe to death, even for all
And sooner to a home we bide thereout
Alone as a cloud in that gaping mouth
So lives on history, though our hearts be stall.
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Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by Epluribusunom(op): 10:22pm On Jul 08, 2017
Any sonneteer on NL?
Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by Epluribusunom(op): 12:14am On Jul 11, 2017
Your critics is highly needed peeps
Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by Epluribusunom(op): 11:24pm On Jul 12, 2017
Kindly show some love peeps, I need your criticisms
Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by AHCB: 9:58pm On Jul 14, 2017
What type of sonnet is this?
Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by Epluribusunom(op): 8:43pm On Jul 18, 2017
The normal type of sonnets with a different rhyme scheme with Iambic pentameter
Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by AHCB: 10:00pm On Jul 18, 2017
Epluribusunom:
The normal type of sonnets with a different rhyme scheme with Iambic pentameter
Normal type of sonnet? huh I'm lost. Please explain further... thanks.
Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by Epluribusunom(op): 12:56am On Jul 19, 2017
Am assuming you're familiar with the three famous types of sonnets. The Shakespearean, Petrarchan, and Spenserian. They all have different rhyme schemes, so I devised my own rhyme scheme.
Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by adedotunmcfelix(m): 10:46am On Jul 19, 2017
Epluribusunom:
As time pass by us in her feline gait
Yielding each ticking seconds into years
By living our very death so await,
So with time a story we all do write
Behold! As the orient sun to west veers
So is the youthful hair of then hued white.


Living along time, our candles are spent
Where dying to live drive nigher to grave
Time itself thitherward the end do went
By the tide, each sole have its soul to save.


Dying we owe to death, even for all
And sooner to a home we bide thereout
Alone as a cloud in that gaping mouth
So lives on history, though our hearts be stall.
very very good effort. Good to see somebody paying attention to prosody. My only criticism is that i'm not sure the excessive digression from the iamb can be considered metrical variation. But as i said, very good effort. Even masters have said a metred poem is tyrannically demanding.
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Re: Tales Of Living (sonnet) by Epluribusunom(op): 11:48pm On Jul 20, 2017
adedotunmcfelix:
very very good effort. Good to see somebody paying attention to prosody. My only criticism is that i'm not sure the excessive digression from the iamb can be considered metrical variation. But as i said, very good effort. Even masters have said a metred poem is tyrannically demanding.
Thanks bro, you can check out my other sonnets: A victory of love and mine mama. I'll be posting more sonnets here on NL.
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