With day two of NaPoWriMo, I turn to some interesting homework from my sonnet class at the Carnegie Center with Richard Taylor. He gave us a list of 14 words around which to construct a Shakespearean sonnet. Yes, the words follow the appropriate rhyme scheme. Our charge: given the end-rhyme words, build the fourteen lines in iambic pentameter and follow the three quatrains / one couplet form and "plot line" conventions within the poem - laying out the story, building to climax, turn (volta), and then resolve in the final couplet. If you would like to play along, here are the fourteen (14) words (in order)...
drift
leave
shift
weave
rack
cigarette
attack
forget
slight
loathed
tight
clothed
plot
lot
Good luck and great writing!
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