I need help finishing my sonnet?

Question

I have this so far:

Who is to say if we are truly great?
“The human mind is more than that of less,”
they say—but creatures live and don’t debate.
And we must live our lives with constant stress.

To that, the ones who glorify us say,
“us humans truly have improved the world,
made it a better place—” what a cliché!
No, we have made confusion, made life swirled,

like bathwater going down the sink—



Rules for a sonnet:
a 14 line poem, with 3 quatrains (of four lines) and a couplet, each line with 10 syllables for a total of 140 syllables, and with iambic pentameter (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable). and with ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme

shakespearean

Answer 1

you are referring to Shakespearean sonnet. Note that this Ben Jonson sonnet is quite different:


XLVI — A SONNET, TO THE NOBLE LADY, THE
LADY MARY WROTH.


I that have been a lover, and could shew it,
Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb,
Since I exscribe your sonnets, am become
A better lover, and much better poet.
Nor is my Muse or I asham'd to owe it
To those true numerous graces, whereof some
But charme the senses, others overcome
Both brains and hearts ; and mine now best do know it :
For in your verse all Cupid's armory,
His flames, his shafts, his quiver, and his bow,
His very eyes are yours to overthrow.
But then his mother's sweets you so apply,
Her joys, her smiles, her loves, as readers take
For Venus' ceston every line you make.

** so which style? what is your sonnet about? why do you want to express it in a sonnet form?
Sounds as if you are simply interested in form but not content!! Form and content subsist on each other as the teacher said. Consider and re-state your question.

Answer 2

impeded in this foaming, frothy mire
we pen our stories using life's red ink
ignoring others' agony and ire.

The rest is up to you.