How do I go about writing a sonnet about sunset?

Question

I have to write a sonnet and thought the amazing effects and colours of a sunset would make a meaningful sonnet but I've never written one and don't know where to start. Can anyone help me please?

Answer 1

Should I compare thee to a sunset
All golden and aglow with love
A rosy bloom in every cheek, yet
A deeper blue that lies above.

The sparkling light of your sweet smile
reminds me of the brightest star
That shines above and all the while
Illuminates the best of who you are.

And yet the sunset always fades
To be replaced by darkest night
The die is cast, the cards are played
And beauty's gone and out of sight.

Still... evermore will be the shades
Of sunsets with your soul alight.

Answer 2

write down the phrases that you see in the sunset
what is special - what is ever changing
the beauty is flighting as a sunset never lasts
etc etc etc
then - look at those ideas - and put them into context - order
and conclude - with the ending of the sunset
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow (another day) etc
for your beauty mystifies me beyond words -

I am having toooo much fun at this

Answer 3

This may give you some ideas, its by Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII

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 growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

just write what you feel like. In your heart think only about the beauty of nature. To begin with try describing the beautiful colours you see around . think the colours and the beauty to be human .

Answer 5

It needs to be fourteen lines long, with the first three (verses) consisting of four lines each. The final verse should have two lines only.

The end ( rhyming) words of the first four verses should go like this
..eyes..love..sighs..dove

With the last verse (of two lines only ..) having the same rhyming sound at the end. ..fair ..hair