Dr. Padma Shree R P
@drpadmashreerp
Dr. Padma Shree R P
@drpadmashreerp
A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem with an intricate and fixed rhyme scheme. In English, moreover, sonnets are written in a prevailing meter consisting of ten syllables per line (called pentameter), arranged into five poetic feet, each of which consists of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable (called an iamb).
Fear of verse rhythms is liable to produce leaden prose, lacking rhythm of any kind, but one can counteract a tendency to meter by deploying plenty of consecutive unstressed syllables.

Poetry has acquired a fluffy image that is totally at odds with its real nature. It’s not pastel colors, but blood red and black. If you don’t obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces. The Furies are the creative processes’ revenge if you refuse to embody them. This rejection is more than creative sabotage, it’s impiety. The gods
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