Tonight Eric needed some help with homework for his civilization class. The assignment was to come up with a sonnet ala Shakespeare about a Book of Mormon story. This was my first attempt. He didn't want to turn this one in for some reason... I think it's brilliant.
Nephi needed to get the plates
From the wicked Laban
He went up to the city gates
So that he could take them
Laban said “No Way!
Not without some money.”
Nephi did not want to pay
He said, “You’re a dummy!”
Anyway, he grabbed his cash,
Hauled it to the castle
Laban greedily took the stash
And kicked Nephi out on his tassels.
So Nephi axed the king,
Took the plates—bada bing.
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5 comments:
No sugar coating it in your sonnet. Blunt and to the point, no pun intended. Do you think the Primary children would sing a song with those words? Cute and thanks for sharing.
Creative sonnet! It meets the criteria of a sonnet too--14 lines, rhyme scheme abab-cdcd-efef-gg.
Traditionally English poets used iambic pentameter.
da-duh, da-duh, da-duh, da-duh, da-duh...
etc....
Cute!
cute and clever. :)
he should have turned it in!
He had to meet the sonnet criteria but not the iambic pentameter part. That's why I didn't worry about it. :)
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