Student Competitions
Hair Studio Loyus is sponsoring a poetry contest at College Ready #5.
Here are the rules:
1. Does the sonnet reflect the contrasting style of either Shakespeare's sonnet 18 or 130?
2. Does the sonnet have 14 lines?
3. Does the sonnet follow the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
Entries due by March 31st, emailed to wmorales@laalliance.org
10 Finalists will be selected, then Hair Studio Lotus will choose three winners based on Most Heart Wrenching, Most Shakespearean, and Most Humorous
SONNET 18
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 dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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.
SONNET 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
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