Based on the following rubric criteria, write an original sonnet using the following criteria: -- Sonnet rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef, gg)
-- 10 syllables (a word part that makes a sound) for each line
-- 14 lines total (3 4-line quatrains and 1 2-line couplet)
-- Iambic pentameter attempted (alternating stressed and unstressed)
-- Use of figurative language
-- Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation \

Explanation:

One of Shakespeare's best-known sonnets, Sonnet 18, follows this pattern:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,

Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest.

          So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

          So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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