Too sad… (English Sonnet)

by Mr. Darcy   Jun 28, 2021


In days gone by the wind blew soft and new,
Just like a lover’s soft caressing kiss.
But now the wind is cold and that’s the truth.
Oh why, are zephyrs bare of all of this?
You’ve torn away the forests from the streams,
Erasing all the right from all the wrong:
If nature knows what’s really best for me,
Why did she steal the chorus from my songs?
We used to dance until the sun would shine.
You opened up my soul and set me free,
But now you’re gone, and music makes me cry.
Your void has taken all my melody.
You showed me how to feel the songs I hear,
Now music is too sad without you near.

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Mr. Darcy
© 2021

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  • 1 year ago

    by Larry Chamberlin

    Structurally the sonnet is well crafted: 10 syllables for each line, Shakespearean rhyme scheme (a-b-a’-b-c-d-c’-d-e-f-e’-f-g-g where ‘ indicates a near-rhyme). The octet is consistently about the present misery, while the sextet starts to deal with the past joy, although it then reverts to the current plight.
    As for the content, you have created a consistent tale of woe, but there is a hint of a deeper sadness. Most of the verbiage could easily reflect lines from a jilted lover. However, lines 7 and 8 speak otherwise. It is not the volition of the lover that took her away, but nature. In my interpretation, the lover has died, leaving her partner bereft without the bitterness that might have come from rejection. Truly a masterful job of subtle story-telling.

  • 2 years ago

    by Deana Seaman

    I love this! very real. Poetry that speaks to the heart of the reader is to me what poetry should do!

  • 3 years ago

    by prasanna

    What an excellent sonnet. Congrats on the win.

  • 3 years ago

    by Everlasting

    Congrats on the win.

  • 3 years ago

    by Meena Krish

    The depth of sadness is caught in this Sonnet gently, slowly and beautifully painful, that it makes me as a reader feel more...a moving write..

    Congrats on theWin!

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