Mono-meter Sonnet

© 2020 by Matthew de Lacey Davidson

photo: Davide Pietralunga — Unsplash — PD

Hey
there!
Stay
where

you
are
too
far

or
near
for
fear

of
love.

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N.B. Many sonnets, including those of Shakespeare, use “iambic pentameter” — which is basically five “beats” to a line. This sonnet uses only one “beat” to each line, but still follows the English or Shakespearean sonnet rhyming scheme of “abab cdcd efef gg.”

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