The Truth in Time
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Wordsworth sonnet
William Wordsworth embraced the Miltonic sonnet, but changed the second quatrain rhyme scheme to compensate for fewer rhyming opportunities in the English language. Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet.
The defining features of the Wordsworth Sonnet are:
octet + quatrain + couplet.
Metered: iambic pentameter.
Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dede ff—as found in his sonnet: ‘London, 1802’. I used trailing rhyme in L6 & L7.
It is composed with the pivot or volta in the very last line.
Truth and morning become light with time. - An African proverb.
Epona, (from mythology, meaning Great Mare) painting by Susan Sheddon-Boulet
Materialised out of t’ foggy whorl.
Most people have speculated without fail
from whence shores or dimension you have hail’d.
They agreed upon: You’re out of this world!
A temperament like Mercury hurled.
I’m a master in the art of stonewalling.
I couldn’t help but irrevocably falling
for you as my bridled passion unfurled.
You don’t possess the beauty o’ Saturn’s rings.
Idyllic days under Neptune blue skies.
I wouldn’t exchange this time for anything
in heaven or on earth– that is no lie.
The truth and morning become light with time:
True nature of Epona is sublime.
Copyright © Suzette Richards | Year Posted 2024
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