Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Steal this rhyme scheme

Sculpture by Jason Freeny

Okay, one more! I had an extra sonnet idea but ran out of days in April. 

Steal a rhyme scheme from a sonnet and create your own poem around it.

Another possibility is to come up with 7 rhyming pairs. And then work the sonnet around them.

Here are some rhymes stolen from Shakespeare. I eliminated words that were archaic and most of the ones where the words no longer rhymed. As usual I ended up with too many! So there are four collections here and a bunch more if you click on Comments.

Helen Hayes relates in her memoir that she got rid of her southern drawl by reciting Shakespeare's sonnets.

If you'd like to browse through on your own, the full collection, all on one page, is at Shakespeare Sonnets. If you'd prefer to steal from modern sonnets, try Sonnets.org.

time
wights
rhyme
knights
best
brow
express'd
now
prophecies
prefiguring
eyes
sing
days
praise

possessing
estimate
releasing
determinate
granting
deserving
wanting
swerving
knowing
mistaking
growing
making
flatter
matter

paws
brood
jaws
blood
fleets
time
sweets
crime
brow
pen
allow
men
wrong
young

dead
bell
fled
dwell
not
so
forgot
woe
verse
clay
rehearse
decay
moan
gone

1 comment:

Joyce Fetteroll said...

despair
still
fair
ill
evil
side
devil
pride
fiend
tell
friend
hell
doubt
out

make
rotten
take
forgotten
have
die
grave
lie
verse
read
rehearse
dead
pen
men


mind
about
blind
out
heart
latch
part
catch
sight
creature
night
feature
you
untrue

shame
lust
blame
trust
straight
had
bait
mad
so
extreme
woe
dream
well
hell

art
cruel
heart
jewel
behold
groan
bold
alone
swear
face
bear
place
deeds
proceeds

old
ey'd (now eyed)
cold
pride
turn'd (turned)
seen
burn'd (burned, well you get the idea!)
green
hand
perceiv'd
stand
deceiv'd
unbred
dead

heart
qualify
depart
lie
rang'd
again
exchang'd
stain
reign'd
blood
stain'd
good
call
all





eye
life
die
wife
weep
behind
keep
mind
spend
it
end
it
sits
commits

time
night
prime
white
leaves
herd
sheaves
beard
make
go
forsake
grow
defence
hence

grows
moment
shows
comment
increase
sky
decrease
memory
stay
sight
decay
night
you
new

way
time
decay
rhyme
hours
unset
flowers
counterfeit
repair
pen
fair
men
still
skill

seen
eye
green
alchemy
ride
face
hid
disgrace
shine
brown
mine
now
disdaineth (which is now disdains)
staineth (which is now stains)

slave
pleasure
crave
leisure
beck
liberty
check
injury
strong
time
belong
crime
hell
well

sea
power
plea
flower
out
days
stout
decays
alack (or lack)
hid
back
forbid
might
bright

behold
hang
cold
sang
day
west
away
rest
fire
lie
expire
by
strong
long

pride
change
aside
strange
same
weed
name
proceed
you
argument
new
spent
old
told

write
name
might
fame
is
bear
his
appear
afloat
ride
boat
pride
away
decay

more
you
store
grew
dwell
glory
tell
story
writ
clear
wit
where
curse
worse

away
mine
stay
thine
wrongs
end
belongs
depend
mind
lie
find
die
blot
not

true
face
new
place
eye
change
history
strange
decree
dwell
be
tell
grow
show

wantonness
sport
less
resort
queen
esteeem'd
seen
deem'd
betray
translate
away
state
sort
report

spring
trim
thing
him
smell
hue
tell
grew
white
rose
delight
those
away
play

forth
pride
worth
beside
write
face
quite
disgrace
mend
well
tend
tell
sit
it

lie
dearer
why
clearer
accidents
kings
intents
things
tyranny
best
incertainty
rest
so
grow

keen
urge
unseen
purge
sweetness
feeding
needing
anticipate
assur'd
state
cur'd
true
you

tears
within
fears
win
committed
never
fitted
fever
true
better
anew
greater
content
spent

now
feel
bow
steel
shaken
time
taken
crime
remember'd
hits
tender'd
fits
fee
me

esteem'd
being
deem'd
seeing
eyes
blood
spies
good
level
own
bevel
shown
maintain
reign

***
fair
name
heir
shame
power
face
bower
disgrace
black
seem
lack
esteem
woe
so

sun
red
dun
head
white
cheeks
delight
reeks
know
sound
go
ground
rare
compare

me
disdain
be
pain
heaven
east
even
west
face
heart
grace
part
black
lack

groan
me
alone
be
taken
engross'd
forsaken
cross'd
ward
bail
guard
jail
thee
me

Will
plus
still
thus
spacious
thine
gracious
shine
still
store
Will
more
kill
Will

make
hate
sake
state
come
sweet
doom
greet
end
day
fiend
away
threw
you