74 - To write a sonnet, use ten beats per line

To write a sonnet, use ten beats per line.
There are some different rhyming schemes to use:
A-B-A-B; A-B-B-A, both fine;
Do this three times and we will be amused.
Then close the poem with one last couplet,
Making a total of fourteen lines, all
Contributing to your little sonnet,
Contemplating winter, spring, summer, fall.
Everything falls beneath your scrutiny:
Politics, emotions, both life and death,
Solipsism, empathy, comedy,
Police, army, the wife, and every breath
You take; the whole of life can be contained
In fourteen lines of ten beats so constrained.
Fri 17 Nov 2006