Write a sonnet that meets the following criteria:


Write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
Use a sonnet rhyme scheme.
Use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave).
Use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet).
Use the example sonnet by Shakespeare given in the project as an example.


PROJECT: SONNET
Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet.

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,
Coral is far more red, than her lips red,
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head:
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes is there more delight,
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet by heaven I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.