Beat

 

 

 

Modern Sonnet

 

The words won’t flow
in form for me
despite the time
I spend with them
in work and play.

 

I try to make
the stress and light
just right and place
the rhymes in lines
like Shakespeare could.

 

My lines are short.
They lack the rhyme.
Don’t see the light.
The stress remains.

 

Beat-(noun)  a metrical or rhythmic stress in poetry or music or the rhythmic effect of these stresses

(Merriam-Webster.com)

 

Thanks to Rebecca Barray for this week's Wordsmith Studio Creative Prompt-Beat.

 

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