Ok teams, here's your first challenge:

Your task: A Shakespearean Sonnet!

Your topic: The poem must be a plot description/summary of one of Hu Ge's series.

Don't know what a Shakespearean Sonnet is? That's ok. I'll tell you =D.

A Shakespearean Sonnet has 4 stanzas. The first 3 are quatraines (4 lines) and the last stanza is a couplet (2 lines). It is written in Iambic pentameter, which means each line has exactly 10 syllables and every other syllable is stressed.

Example of stressing: "Tiny raindrops on my head" = Stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed

The rhyming scheme goes like this:

A
B
A
B

C
D
C
D

E
F
E
F

G
G

You can reuse words that rhyme (i.e. 'A' can rhyme with 'C') but creativity counts and doing that will decrease your score unless it flows very, very well hehe.

Questions? Post here in this thread =). Happy writing!

Deadline: July 7

-.-" ... geez Teddy ... you are evil lolz ... poetry?! o.O

The last peice of decent poetry I wrote was two years ago ... and that was a limerick lolz ... designed to be funny ... -.-"

Ahhhh wellz ... jus gotta hope the others aren't budding poets lolz ... XP

what a brillient idea!!!

:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

that is challenging.

!!!

um, can i back out now? like, i so do NOT like writing poems. ):

hmm poetry..... not really my speciality
well monica, 4unit english *nudge nudge*

no u may not backout now. :lol:

Any more of it is on how u portray the story rather than how good it is. As long as it is in iambic pentanmeter.

OMG i wish you guys so much luck .............brrrrr poetry .........so hard and so difficult :wacko: wish you all a really good luck :lol:

What Affa ... dude I got my trials coming up lolz!! =P

Why dun you try ur luck eh?? XP

Oh and btw guys ... are you sure that a Shakespeare sonnet is meant to be that sophisticated and complex ... and what's with the "stressed and non-stressed" syllables?? I dun even get it lolz ... o.O ... isn't it bad enough that there has to be 10 in each line?!?! -.-" ...

Nice Nice .. . >_> Poems are what I SUCK AT MOST IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD X.X iono where iheartu is either >_>

I'm positive. With the stress/unstress, it's how you say the words. Here are some more examples:

Rainbow = stressed, unstressed

Mike = stressed

Smile = stressed

Angel = stressed, unstressed

Indeed = unstressed, stressed

Magnificent = unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed

Afar = unstressed, stressed

Love = stressed

Food = stressed

Undying = unstressed, stressed, unstressed

*** Most 1 syllable words are stressed! ***

*** Some words can be stressed OR unstressed depending on how you say them! They're usually prepositions such as "of", "on", "by", "in" ***

Example:

Underworld = stressed, unstressed, stressed OR unstressed, stressed, unstressed, though the first sounds better


*** Still other words can be like this: Mousepad = stressed, unstressed OR stressed, stressed ***


You're given 2 weeks for a reason =P.

wow... this is VERY hard...
good luck guys!!!
it doesn't matter if it isn't perfect, we ain't all shakespear =D

teddy *nudge* next task *wink* haha!!!

OMG ... are you serious Teddy?! ............. lolz ... I still dun get it ... what's the diff seriously ...? o.O ... and can we cut the stressing thing please please pretty please?? [with 10 free cherries on top and 4 in the middle] =D Lolz ... man you should give us the rest of the year to work on that!! =P I mean Shakespeare [and yes Jenny THIS is how you spell his name ... -.-" ... with the "e" plz!! ><] prob spent eons long writing his stuff [albeit he wrote a couple hundred -.-"] and wellz ... lolz ... he's Shakespeare and we're not ... how else can I put it ... lolz ... =P

Hehe I just hope all the other guys aren't Shakespeares in the making ... -.-" ... coz I sure ain't!! [but I hope Affa is lolz!! =D]

haha, we had to write one for school and i thought i was gonna die, but i wasn't that hard after you start writing. the stress and unstress are just the way u say a word to express feeling. some syllables u want to say it with a more acent and louder, which is obviously the stress part. it really doesnt have to be perfect. just as long as it flows, the stress and unstress things won't be a problem. Ok, my explaination is really bad, if u really want to know, u can always look it up.

My God! THiz is HARSh...!! Great....how am i gona write this? hm...

I'm completely lost. Especially with iheartu not here or something X.X

OMG!!! brilliant ideal!!! i can't make it too so difficult, not really great at composing!!! good luck everyone O.o

well u guys have two weeks, plenty of time to think it all out.

oh, btw, my partner's not here at all, how am i supposed to do the sonnet?

):

Same here. I haven't heard from iheartu either :irratated:

umm ok angellina and chelly plz partner up

since u both dont have partners so u two can partner up

yanyan and teddy that's all rite, rite?

That'll work. Where have people gone hehe?

But isn't Shakespeare's sonnet 14 lines? ~_~

Yes, in my haste i forgot to copy paste one more hehe last night, Yvescion was like, "Dude, that's wrong".

Me: No, it's not.

Yves: Yes, it is.

Me: It's 14 lines long - learn how to count!

Yves: ...

Me: OMG!

Yes...14/4 = 3R2....NOT 2R2...Wow, I've been chatting with Vee^2 too much =P.

huh? now i'm lost....so how many lines do we write? sozzi..i guess i'm jst totalli a losti in poems...esp shakespeare...

14. Hehehe...but if enough ppl say they want 10 instead, I can change it.

aha ...ok....now i have to worry abt the stresses...how on earth did u come up wif this idea eh? poem.......<goes to a little corner>

So, It's 14 lines? What's with the stress & unstress X.X

I've already posted 3 posts that include examples about the stressing. If you need further assistance, PM me.

Yeah lolz ... nah 14 is great ... the more the better ... -.-" ...

BUT ...

- Sonnet 29 - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes -

This is the second quatraine ... and the Ds dun rhyme ... I found this a trend amongst Shakespeare sonnets ... heaps of them have a quatraine with a set which dun rhyme ... -.-" ...

But anywayz ... dun mark this too harshly guys ... lolz ... please bear in mind that we are not budding poets or descendants of Shakespeare [and even if we were we dun have his brain, unfortunately ...] lolz .... =P

hehe, no matter how hard u tried to explain, this is no easy task. the candidates gotta squeeze their brain to get the solution...

dun wori, i am sure we wun b TOO harsh... rite teddy? =D
remember, deadline is next week ^^ so plz get a move on =D

we shall b looking 4ward to the lovely sonnets provided!! ^^

Haha, after soo much online searching I think I get how to write one. I think X.X

my god i'm screwed.....i dun even noe where linda is...~_~

hehe anyone turned in their poem yet?

DEADLINE'S TODAY

hahaha wow i remember this about a year ago i learnt it in class, iambic pentameter is wut it's called and it is so crappy!!! good luck making the poem xD took me a while to write my poem for homework :lol:

Alright guys i jogged back my memory and took a stab at the crappy iambic pentameter :lol: wasn't easy but it took be a couple minutes or so, just right after I posted the post just above this one :lol: :lol: :lol:


In this series called Chinese Paladin,
Xiao Yao and Ling’er were very happy.
Xiao Yao was there and was her guardian,
Although she left him he was still peppy.

It was still morning so it was still dawn,
As for his training he learned very fast.
Though he was very sleepy he still yawned,
Drunken Sword Immortal taught him with hast.

The Leviathan was still very strong,
The snake shot water at her with its mouth.
But Ling’er’s tail was very pretty and long,
Because Xiao Yao did nothing she die after.

As for his days after he has his daughter,
And then he became cold and not haughty.


argh sounds so crappy :dead: i'm so ashamed haha ^_^

EDIT: feel free to comment on my 30 minute poem ^_^ ^_^



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We're suppose to PM it right? X.X I hope we're suppose to :S

yea u're suppose to pm the submissions

pm??? ehh o well i don't care i just did it for fun ^_^ and plus it's to late now :mellow:

Hey guys, I just got back from a weekend long business conference. Your submissions will be scored as soon as possible hehe. Thanks for the PM's =).

wow they actually sent them in? *gawks* lol!!
sorri but it was like inactivity and stuf... so i was like 'if they didn't send mayb i should mass email them lol!'

neywayz... good good...