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

From Extraordinary Poetry Writing p 120.