I’ve done very little but sit down, read and eat today.
Julia cooked an excellent roast lamb dinner with a multiplicity of vegetables (potatoes, beans, brussels, carrots and celariac) and we had chocolate cake for dessert. I’m digesting that as I write.
The young couple next door (as I persist in calling them, in an elderly sort of way) brought us simnel cake cup cakes. I like them. And I like simnel cake too, just to avoid ambiguity.
I also wrote a sonnet. It’s a proper one, fourteen lines, iambic pentameters, a rhyme scheme and a volta. It took me twenty minutes and actually makes reasonable sense. Despite this, it still isn’t particularly good, but it’s a start. It just goes to show how constant practice makes it easier to write.
Now I just need a way of improving the quality.
I may search the internet for “How to Write Like Shakespeare”. I found this article. It’s not a great help, being geared more towards plays than poetry. I then found this article when adding “sonnet” to the search.
I also found a random sonnet generator, but I won’t post a link because it isn’t very good.
Six minutes to midnight – time to press the button.
Simnel Cake and Easter Chick
Having followed your helpful link, I think that I will leave the sonnet writing to you and Will.
It’s only 14 lines so how difficult can it be? That’s just two limericks and a clerihew. I’m determined to crack it.
Sweet! And if you figure out how to write like Shakespeare, do let the rest of us know.
Will do!
An excellent relaxing day
🙂 Yes, no ponies or sight-seers to cause stress round here.
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If you wrote like Shakespeare, would you be authentically you?
Not authentic, but possibly better… 🙂
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It seems that you had a good day today. The simnel cake cup cakes look good! Happy Easter to you and Julia!
Happy Easter to all the family. I bet your’s has been busier than ours! 🙂
We have been fairly busy 😀 Thank you, Simon.
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