On Sonnets – Hysteria poetry prompt for June

I’ve been thinking about sonnets this month and trying to write some myself. They’re not too difficult, in theory, as you have a defined rhyme scheme and a metrical pattern to follow.

If you Google “sonnet” you’ll find there are different kinds of sonnets listed and described. The one I favour, and it is the one you’ll recognise in lots of poems you read, is the Shakespearean sonnet.

A Shakespearean sonnet evolved in England during and around the time of the Elizabethan era. These sonnets are so...