anyone know how to write a sonnet....for Romeo & Juliet ?

Question

i cant make anything rhyme and make sense.

Answer 1

Why dont you simply use the one of the prologue or as a guide to compose another!! You could change some words and all will be perfect as long as you acknowledge source:


Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.


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Answer 2

You have a problem, to be sure.

For starters, RO-me-oh is a dactylic foot. Where the heck can you use a dactyl in a form that insists on iambs?

But you can fake it: Say something about teenagers who fall in love. Say several things about teenagers who fall in love. Some of the things you say about teenagers who fall in love will meet the 'line requirement' for the sonnet form.

SEIZE that line!

E.g. "Their love had made them both completely blind" fits the line requirements of a sonnet. Can you do something with it?

Like, maybe "The end they sought was soul with soul combined"?


Get the idea? The sonnet form is like a crossword puzzle pattern. Get the pieces that might fit here or there, and juggle them for a while. Eventually you have a sonnet.

It sounds a lot more difficult than it is. Take a look at my answers, and you'll see several sonnets that I've composed in minutes. I am not a genius, nor a great poet, but I can fill in the blanks.

So can you.

Answer 3

Sonnets are one of the most rigid poetic forms and most poets find them too restricting. Nevertheless, follow these guidelines.

Your poem will have 14 lines, no more, no less.

Each line will have 10 syllables, no more, no less- though one of Shakespeare's sonnets out of the hundreds he wrote, has 8.

There are three quartets (making 12 lines total).

The last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

Your rhyme scheme will be abab cdcd efef gg

Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a)
Admit impediments. Love is not love (b)
Which alters when it alteration finds, (a)
Or bends with the remover to remove. (b)

O no, it is an ever fixed mark (c)
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d)
It is the star to every wand'ring barque, (c)
Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. (d)

Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e)
Within his bending sickle's compass come; (f)
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e)
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. (f)

If this be error and upon me proved, (g)
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g)

There are three sonnets in Romeo and Juliet. The opening prologue in Act I from the Chorus, the first words Romeo and Juliet speak to one another at the masked party, and the prologue that opens Act II.

Have fun with this and if you end up with an extra syllable or so, well, sometimes Shakespeare did, too.