Locked Up In a Word Prison

This mind locked into a syllable count Receiving maxim sentence seventeen Monoku one liner is this amount Shakespearean Sonnet it’s revealed in The Acrostic is vertically straight Like these prison bars that hold these words Each line doesn’t have to rhyme to create It would be smart to use lots of new verbs Someday using Free Verse setting it free No set rules follow from these prison walls A party will be singing jubilee The key to sonnet this my mind recalls abab, cdcd, efef, gg in memory Waiting for the Warden to pardon me Contest: Sonnet Sponsored by: Emile Pinet Date Created: 12/31/2019 (10 syllables per line)