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A chapter in the book Heart Crafted Poems - 2022

Sonnets Masters

by JLR

Some writers find the rhythm naturally
Others who can not find the beat are lost.
No other than the great masters of words
Needed worry to employ perfect iambs.
Eerily elusive, without great skill, is a meter
Together with the stress in its proper place
So well balanced ending with sweet rhymes.

Many nations claimed the art form
Adding English, French, Italian, Russian to the name,
Sonnets are known as "the little song" with fourteen lines,
Together we must thank the sonnet's medieval birthplace, Italy
Enjoying recognition of Rosetti; Wyatt, Howard, Sidney, Spencer,
Regaling Shakespeare wrote and wrote and wrote some more
Spurring on Donne, Milton, Keats, Browning, and on and on and on ...



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