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Fiction Fridays-"Passion"--my Attempt at a Shakespearean-style Sonnet

Posted on the 29 April 2011 by Shawndrarussell
So Yahoo! had a contest for the best Shakespearean-style sonnet, and I entered but will admit that while I do not think of myself as a poet, I did love writing this so maybe I should try to write more of it (and turn them into song lyrics that I can sell to like Beyonce or someone?!). For those of you that don't remember (or care to remember) what a sonnet is from your high school English class days, let me refresh you. It's a 14 line, abab, cdcd, efef, gg rhyme scheme poem written in iambic pentameter (da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM is supposed to be the beat which is all about where you are supposed to put the stress or emphasize on a word). For example, trapeze works for da DUM because we say tra-PEZE--it's the stronger part of the word. Anyway, here's my attempt at winning the $100 prize:
Passion

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