Sonnet 13: Attractive Annabel

2018, Olan L. Smith

Attractive Annabel, you're quite composed,

A poet's want discerns your bosom firm

Will tap your strength, and gifts of love transposed

A pardon comes in mornings light, affirm

Those juxtaposed, in lands of nevermore―

Or once-upon-a-time of old, where we

Will not so ride the waves to once before

Imposing on his own bouquet to see.

Appreciate a deepened sea explored,

Find it, the gorgeous Annabel's delight,

Alas, he hears a voice, an ocean roared,

Not once but twice, a voice whose songs excite.

     A poet sings to Annabel this hymn

     Of love, "Whose Tomb, Whose Mother Weeps for Him?"

(This is an example of an English or Shakespearean Sonnet; it uses iambic pentameter rhythm, with a rhyme scheme of a, b, a, b;  c, d, c, d;  e, f, e, f; and couplet ending of g, g.)