Can anyone write an example of a shakespearean sonnet?

Answer 1

Legs crossed: quietly he sat and stared,
Yuppies galore clamoring for attention,
Apparently not a soul would be spared,
Laptops clamoring with marketing action;

He scowled there disdain for humanity,
They did not care about Hippocrates,
The only trait in the room was vanity,
Yuppies, power suits, and chai tea lattes;

To them greed did not make a difference,
Porcelain smiles and empty souls,
Solace taken in a coming pestilence,
No one cared of their drugs deadly tolls;

Everyday their coffers with money fill,
Everyday he watched them and felt ill.

Answer 2

Basic identifiers of a Shakespearean/English sonnet:

4 quatrains, developing a conflict, with a closing couplet that comes to a conclusion regarding the conflict.

Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg (again, not all - Elizabeth Barret Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" is a sonnet, but doesn't follow the rhyme scheme)

Generally in iambic pentameter, but not always.

Answer 3

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.