NaPoWriMo 2025, day 26: little song

little song

to make a little song of fourteen lines

you start unstressed, then stress, and then repeat

the pattern, as pentameter confines

your effort, which at 70’s complete.

the whole, you scheme to rhyme, a b a b

and 5 through 8, c d c d, and then

e f e f to reach a decency

a dozen lines obtain. two left. here’s when

g g appear. it’s clear the last lines punch

the ticket of officialdom, and so

another little song for fans to munch

is in the books, and we have afterglow.

but truest of the poets tend to doubt

that that is what a Sonnet’s all about.