How I Spent My Day

How I Spent My Day

[edit] The first part here is my worksheets. There’s a first draft poem at the bottom.

Poetry assignment: Sonnet

‘21/03/02

ShakespeareanPetrarchanSpenserianMiltonicModern/Contemporary
AAAA14
BBBBlines
ABABusually
BABAfree
CABAverse
DBCB
CBBB
DACA
EC/C/CCC
FD/D/DDD
EC/E/ECE
FD/C/EDD
GC/D/DEE
GD/E/CEC
iambic pentameter – duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH.

~ means the meter isn’t exact

Italicized lines do not feel right to me.

It all started when the line “We all look forward to the sky at night” popped into my head. I had no meaning or context, no idea or plan. I knew only that it was iambic pentameter.
We all look forward to the sky at night
To see the stars that shine to guide our way,
Who watch o’er us until the break of light
As we tromp ahead without delay.

‘Tis cold. The bitter winter night is long.
It’s not as if we go because we flee.
What we have done is not considered wrong
but there is not the place we can be free.
. . .
A long, hard night and not a rigmarole
. . .
At last! Some food! A bed! Life is good!



















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bright blight cite
delight fight fright
height kite light
might night plight
quite right site sight
tight trite white
write bay bray cay
clay cray day dray
delay defray fray
gray hay jay lay
may nay neigh pay
play ray say stay
long song wrong
belong prong tong
throng agree be
bee free flee he
lee lea me knee
plea see sea she
tree thee three
we apiece caprice
cease decrease
crease fleece
geese greece
lease peace piece
release least
priest brotherhood
could good hood
stood (mis)understood
wood would
Worksheet 1

We all look upward to the sky at this night
To see the stars that shine to guide our way,
Who watch o’er us until the break of light
As we tromp ahead without delay.

It’s cold. The bitter winter night is long.
Yes, best that we forgo our needed sleep.
It’s hard. We’ll sing our songs to keep us strong, And hope our hold on life is what we keep.

As dawn arrives, the cold begins to ease.
Not far to go before we reach our goal
And thank the god who listened to our pleas.
A long, hard night, but not a rigmarole.

At last! Some food! A bed! A stove with wood!
Above all else, we know our life is good.




























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bright blight cite
delight fight fright
height kite light
might night plight
quite right site
sight tight trite
white write
bay bray cay clay
cray day dray
delay defray fray
gray hay jay lay
may nay neigh
pay play ray say
stay among
belong long prong
song strong tong
throng wrong
beep bleep creep
deep heap jeep
keep leap neap
peep reap seep
sheep
sleep sweep weep
(dis)agrees appease
bees breeze
frees
freeze fleas
guarantees
he’s jeez keys
knees luxuries
peas pleas
please seas sees
seize
she’s sneeze
sprees squeeze trees wheeze
bowl cajole coal
console control
droll extol foal
hole mole parole
patrol pole role
roll sole soul stole stroll toll troll whole
Worksheet 2

 First Draft
 It’s cold. The bitter winter night is long.
 Yes, best that we forgo our needed sleep.  
 It’s hard. We’ll sing our songs to keep us strong,
 And hope our hold on life is what we keep.
 
 We all look upward to the sky this night
 To see the stars that shine to guide our way,
 Who watch o’er us until the break of light
 As we tromp ahead without delay.
  
 As dawn arrives, the cold begins to ease.
 Not far to go before we reach our goal
 And thank the god who listened to our pleas.
 A long, hard night, but not a rigmarole.
 
 At last! Some food! A bed! A stove with wood!
 Above all else, we know our life is good 


I don’t like the striped rows and the background color, but WordPress does not give me an option to remove it, and I needed to use the “pre” format to keep my worksheets intact. It shows clear/white on my drafting page. I also dislike that it changes the font for the final poem.

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