1. All words defined. Submit a copy of your sonnet with all the words defined (this excludes articles like a, an, the and connector words such as but, if, etc).
2. Scansion (iambic pentameter indicated and when the text goes off rhythm)
3. Repeating consonant and vowel sounds.
4. A scenario for the sonnet as a speaker: who, what, where, when, why! Be specific!
Example: I am a women in her late 80’s talking about my deceased husband to my grandchildren after his memorial service. It is early evening and we are in my living room.
Sonnet 71:
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.

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