The Sonnet is the Easiest of Poems
Katherine Ashewode (2006)
Part of an ongoing series of teaching poems, a sonnet about sonnets.
The sonnet is the easiest of poems,
It really is a piece of cake to write,
You take a theme, like birds, or love, or homes,
And then just need to get the meter right.
For every line you need to have five "feet,"
Each one of them should make the sound "da-DUM,"
And don't put in another type of beat
'Cause then your sonnet really will sound dumb.
You also need to put some rhymes in there
To fill three verses, each will have four lines,
Lines one and three, and two and four will share,
And two lines at the end will also rhyme.
And so you see how easily it goes...
If you are William Shakespeare, I suppose.