pictured ⇧ the birth of venus (aphrodite) by
Botticelli
a - darling, love, honey, my sweet
b - how rude your words!
a - how bitter the hatred they entreat!
b - yet how they pluck in me such yearning chords
c - baby, beloved, sugar, my treasure
d - stubborn fool! don't you know better?
c - still you endeavor endeavor endeavor;
d - love cannot be bought by false valor.
e - doll, princess, sweetheart, sunshine
f - sour bile bubble rise up in my throat,
e - struggle to gag at the word 'mine',
f - strengthen me to reject your false note!
g - for none could love but what they see,
g - and what they see I know I can't be.
definitions:
pretense - an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true.
endeavor - try hard to do or achieve something.
entreat - ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
inspiration:
Shakespeare; I used his version of a sonnet here. The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines in total, with 3 quatrains (stanzas consisting of four lines each), plus a couplet (a stanza of two lines). The first and third lines must end in a rhyming word in each quatrain, alongside the second and fourth lines ending in a rhyming word. The first quatrain goes A B A B (lines a and a rhyme, lines b and b rhyme), the second goes C D C D, and the third goes E F E F. Finally, both of the final words in the end of the couplet must rhyme ( G G).
