Italian Sonnets

ITALIAN SONNETS If you stop to think about poetry writing in the Middle ages or so The easiest language to find rhymes in was that of Italy And poets there composed sonnets easily : Lines all ended in the very common Italian letters - a e or o. I personally dislike everything Italian - hey, that’s me, absurd - And OK, its racist, bigoted, unfair, whatever, - but here’s the blurb: No one can deny that the sonnets of Shakespeare are superb Simply because they are English sonnets wrestling with words Other than those ending in a e or o. Now no doubt some people say that Italian sonnets are better. . . Lo! Need to ask who these people are? Italians of course, you know. Even some famous kids’ songs have been infected by Italianissimo : The famous Old McDonald Had A Farm has its chorus line so Similar in sound to the Italian : e, a, e, a, o ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . Poem is in Italian Sonnet rhyme scheme abba abba cdcdcd Acrostic fourteen letters in two words "ITALIAN SONNETS" comprise the first letters of each line. Written for Dakarai Cobb's Contest "THE SONNET MAN'S ACROSTIC CHALLENGE"