Through Wind so Sharp and Cold - A Sonnet

15 Dec 2019

BPF
The wind is howling down the lane,
The rooks above now screech and scream;
By them I’m scorned with such disdain,
But on I trudge through life extreme.

In churchyard now, by tomb unknown,
A sacred face - He's standing there;
The vision fades, I’m so alone,
My heart so sad and in despair.

My life so wild, I know, - untamed,
And He was scorned, deceived, betrayed;
What now for me? In death so shamed?
“Oh Lord!” I scream, “In life I’ve strayed.”

“Hear my cry and set me free!”
“No refuge, Lord, now here for me! ”

14 December 2019

This poem is in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet with three four-line verses (quatrains) and a final two-line couplet.  It has a rhyming scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.  It is based, in part, on Psalm 142.  It differs from a true Shakespearean sonnet in that it is written in the form of an ‘iambic tetrameter’ rather than an ‘iambic pentameter’; that is, it has four beats in a line rather than five.  The first two quatrains establish the setting of the poem, the third adds an overall comment, while, in this case, the final couplet establishes a conclusion to the sonnet.

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