Hi Garry,
Well, I am getting a lot of positive feedbacks and reviews. Their poetry is mostly free-versed.
But some of the authors have a tendency to write rhythmic structures.
My style of writing is a bit different…


This is pretty much how WS was writing:
One of Shakespeare's best-known sonnets, Sonnet 18, follows this pattern:
It must be written in iambic pentameter (duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH).
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WS Sonnet #18:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

(A B A B C D C D E F E F G G)

As you see the pattern is simple and consistent:
duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH
shall-I-com-PARE- thee-TO-a-SUM-mer's-DAY and so on.

That is something to start with… don’t you think?

Thank you,
Iouri :)