For our English final, we're doing a scene analysis and recital from one scene in Romeo and Juliet. My partner and I are going to do part of the scene where Paris and Romeo face off in the last act of the play. We get extra credit if we write our scene analysis which will be used as background info for setting up the scene as a Shakespearean sonnet. This is my first sonnet and it took hours just to get these last six lines in. Tell me what you think.

 

With the falsity of Juliet's death unknownVery troubled, is her sweet RomeoHe sets of for her himself, all aloneHaving prepared a plan of ending his woeBut someone else had beaten him thereParis, Juliet's would be loverStood there amidst his own despairUnknowingly avoiding each otherHe confronted the one by whom Tybalt was slainThe saddened Montague accepted himself caughtHe was ready to face his defeat and be detainedThinking through death, such satisfaction could be wroughtThe clash ensues to decide who first fallsThe Reaper's cry, to them both, it calls

Nice! I remember doing Romeo and Juliet last year (I was actually commended for my acting skills.. :x )..though your sonnet is very nice!

*sees sonnet by sikota* ooh sonnet poem *reads* rhyme scheme? *reads again* gyaaa this is good

I'm not sure if I prefer my usual style where I rhyme every other line without having to worry about quatrains. It took me hours for the last six lines.