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Circle Sonnet
By kitten_princess
22 April 2006
My first attempt at very structured stuff... usually it's quite modern in format, or at least more "gutspill" like. This felt more controlled.

I would really like comments on this, this is my very first sonnet (and may not be the last!)

EDIT: Changed a few words. Thanks oh-so-much to no1butclo, and also shadowplay... what would I do without you, eh? Smile (comments would be loved and adored still!)

Sunlight filters past a window pane,
Tearing through my clothing, and that dress.
I know that you hate it, just confess;
So that we can fight, and try again.

I knew from the start you were the One.
Everything we do, so fresh, so real.
Every day, spent on a roulette wheel,
Each night adding to the lucky run.

As I cast that dress from off my form,
I can hear the fading tolls of youth.
I now see the murkiness in truth
As you drag me with you, through the storm.

That same dress, discarded on the floor
Tells me that the wheel will spin once more.

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Written by shadowplay (41 comments posted) 23rd April 2006
I like the first stanza, where I think you really use the form to your advantage, but by the second I can't help feeling you've run out of ideas, and that 'You were the One' and the repetition just serve to make it stale. You do it again, repeating 'I can' in the third stanza, and it seems like you could have described things a bit more. The remaining lines, and the rhyming couplet work for me, particularly the reference to the roulette wheel in the last. 
 
Overall, I think for a first attempt it's better than I could do- as you know, I don't write in form myself- but it just seems to me at this stage that you are writing in a way that is too constrained, even for a sonnet.

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