If anyone likes poetry...

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  1. jezz
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    help me
    So I was set to write a Shakespearean style sonnet, written in iambic pentameter and I don't know if I got it right. Help me:
    Such dark arrays within your eyes do hold
    Secrets behind closed doors do find thy mind
    Your place: your fall from which has been foretold:
    But oh, I wish for love to age come blind.
    Alas, my life, thou'rt be beyond my reach
    Mine eyes doth see more than my soul
    Years do separate us: words, thoughts in each.
    Within your work muffled whispers of coal
    Darkness dusted above duties of thine,
    A rose so fresh shan't see the horrors thou'st seen.
    Thou workst for a man: his mastery also to mine.
    Tho' thou be far over me, alone it seems.
    My love so true: vetoed. I cannot withhold.
    One day, I yearn for my love shall give as gold.

    Criticism is always appreciated... constructive please.
    If anyone's reading this k
     
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    Roses are red

    @Sando3 is a hoe

    I like to eat snakes

    As soon as I know
     
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    I'm not no poetry master and I really don't know much about poetry... but it looks pretty good to me.
     
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    wth thts perfect
     
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    wowowowowowo okay u evil cow
     
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    Looks fine to me
     
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    It's pretty cool that you wrote it in Iambic Pentameter (I know what that is from my Shakespeare class), and I like the use of Old-English words like "thy" and "thou'rt". It's really quite nice. I think you did a great job and did it correctly.
     
  8. jezz
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    Thanks. I was really doubtful of whether or not it was right.
     
  9. jezz
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    Thanks. Any constructive criticism?
    ty do you have any comments?
     
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    Agreed
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    My English teacher would fangirl over this ngl
     
  13. jezz
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    I just showed mine and got roasted.
    TIME TO REWRITE
     
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    whaa
     

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