How to write a sonnet 

You teach it better than my regular English teacher.

Thank you mister Sato for this guide This video was so useful to me I hope this reaches people far and wide And I sure hope that they will all agree That your explanation is great, no doubt We're writing better sonnets thanks to you We could not have done all of this without Your well-structured advice and that is true! And in the volta I shall let you know This is the first time I write a sonnet Give me a little while to practice though And in no time im sure ill be on it! I honestly think that this is so cool Much better than the stuff you learn in school! (As a sidenote this is indeed my first sonnet so if anyone notices any mistakes in the rhythm or anything along those lines please let me know!)

thank you i have to submit it by tomorrow and it was assigned today

Love's the separation and the oneness, From this world and to His benevol’nce. Love's the wine and you are the drunkenness, Get drunk, and be His lover with patience. He is nowhere, yet He is in ev’rything, Open th’ inner eye, an’ behold His pure Love. Feel the Love ; praise, adore and gladly sing. And spread your invisible wings, O Dove ! O Lov’r ! You are the mind, He’s the Reason. O Lov’r ! You are the face, He’s the Beauty. O Lov’r ! You are the bloom, He’s the Season. O Lov’r ! You are the might, He's the Mighty. Place th’ hand on the heart and feel the rhythm. That's where His abode is, go and call Him. The theme is based on Sufism. I wrote this after reading Rumi.

Is anyone else in quarantine? I'm doing virtual school and I couldn't understand the lesson so I came here :P

I hate sonnets, it's so complicated when writing one in one day! I'd rather make a quatrain.

This video really deserves much more views, I can see there's a lot of effort put in to it.

Im not even in school. I came here because I want to practice writing and this has me inspired. thank you. Knowledge is power.

Best breakdown I’ve found so far on RU-vid. Thanks

This is the BEST explanation out there (and I've watched a LOT)!

I took notes from this video, and I am beginning to write my Sonnet for my advanced English class! Thank you so much! This helped A LOT. At first, I was completely confused as I missed the day when we took notes in class for this certain poem, but since I looked at your video, it helped me to understand how to write a Shakespearean Sonnet :D Thanks!

i appreciate this so much, for quite some time ive failed to understand the point of this style of poetry (or any poetry for that matter) but you have truly opened my eyes

Excellently explained and illustrated. Your tone and tempo fit the subject matter like magic. What a breath of fresh air (I hold an undergraduate degree in English Literature, so I have developed a keen appreciation for respect, passion and well communicated teachings). Thank you for an posting an exemplary video.

Thank you so much for this. I'm taking a creative writing class for the first time and this information is way more relevant than the two poems my teacher sent us to use as reference.

i didn't pay much attention in english class back in hs and now i'm paying for it with this new-found love of poetry, thanks for the video, it helped a lot

Sounds like sonnet writers just want to jump through as many hoops as they can

Mr Sato your explanation is so clear and makes it very easy for us to learn; and even makes me feel motivated to write, now that I know how to. Thank you very much.

How nice of you to ask! Several different programs, mainly GarageBand, Seashore, and Keynote. Some I finished editing in Final Cut Express.

Thank you so much sir . Now I'm going to follow these three things to write my first sonnet . Thank you so much . Such a helpful video

This was EXTREMELY helpful!!! Thank you very much Mr.Sato! I wish u were my teacher, because you explain things so clearly.

I love this. I was inspired this morning and wrote 10 today. 6 Petrarchan and 4 Shakespearean. Am exhausted 😩 😂😂

I like your video. I also like the band My Chemical Romance and their use of iambic writing. It isn't pentameter but I think it gives insight into accented and unaccented syllables. Some of their lyrics are: "Are you near me? Can you hear me?Can we pretend to leave and then we'll meet again when both our cars collide? These particular lyrics are performed as a prayer at the funeral and the ballerina dances one last time until the prayer is over and everyone opens their eyes. Other famous songs like "I'm not Okay" use iambic as well. "Well if you wanted honesty, that's all you had to say!" I'm not okay. etc. Then there is a part where he breaks cadence and sounds like Ophelia's manic madness and transitions back into cadence with a whispered, "trust me" Writing is a coping mechanism and sonnets are songs. So practicing writing is a cathartic exercise. It is also attractive because if a guy is self conscious about making a move on a date it is way easier if he writes the girl a sonnet about making a move then punctuates the conclusion of the poem with action as if checking her reading comprehension. Or the girl can perform a well executed poem and capture everyone's sympathy and endearment. Or if you want to impress a stranger on Okay Cupid writing a sonnet about their specific themes and words will instantly give a response and shoot you to the top of their list especially if they like authors who use poetry like Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe.

Came here to see if my sonnet is actually a sonnet, and I guess it's almost a sonnet, which is good enough :)

You way of teaching is superb because you go deep in explaining the minor things.

this is so easily explained and all the examples are sooo helpful!! this is such a great video to get me started on my poetry journey!! Thank you!!

"but sadly dogs don't live forever" perfect volta. Are sonnets a personal favorite of yours? Along with the haiku and maxims the short, constrained, "simple but not easy" format of sonnets makes them one of if not THE favorite writing constraint I know of

Thank you for the video. It was really helpful and now I feel prepared to write my first sonnet!

The best explanation that I ever found... Thank you so much for sharing Love from India

this is what I've been looking for

I listened to this same topic on another RU-vid channel and it went over my head.. Thanks for explaining it

"But dog, you make me grab your steaming poop..." LOL! You're hilarious !!!

Such an amazing explanation

Beautifully done. Computer programming has rules for success. So do sonnets 🏆

The rhythm thing blew my mind

Great video. I actually felt like I actually learned something new off RU-vid.

This is amazing for rap writing

Top class mate👌🏻

This was fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

Best teacher of poets indeed ❤

This video helped me a lot. Thank you.

dude holy crap, every word here helps, damn your good at this, keep it up dude!

pov: you came here because the poem is due this week and you haven't started it yet

I really need this right now, thank you!

Thank you for making this video! Very helpful :D

very well explained..thank you for this..I am trying to write a sonnet for the first time.

Awesome,just what I needed

Gotta write one of these foe school, big help, thanks

Need the full version of the dogpoop sonnet xD

Very Helpful

So good!! Thank you so much for this! 😊

Ngl, your voice is really relaxing

Better then what we get to learn in our lectures 🤞

I've always loved this video. I come back to it from time to time just to admire it. If anyone would want a much briefer explanation on sonnets, I also made a video on this topic.

Hello Mistersato411! Thank you for this engaging explanation of a sonnet. It’s very helpful, I’m also enjoying the one on symbolism. Any videos on fiction writing? I bet they’d be just as enjoyable. Congrats!!!!

thnxs it was very helpful. grettings from Ecuador :D

Amazing. Thank you!

Thank you infinitely! HareKrishna.GodBless❤️🙏😀

I'm in high school and I have a lot of trouble with these types of things I'm not to good at this you could say I'm the slow one of the class but the way you explained it helped me a little bit more it's just hard for me to do this stuff I'm just a little dumb I guess

super helpful!

This dude’s more relevant than my teacher smh 🤦‍♂️

thanks so much dude, I did not understand sonnets beore this

Would this help me with rap lyrics ? Is not which direction should I take? Thank you

i did not know it was this deep.

4:20 ba BUM, ba BUM, ba BUM... the most important thing for us lyricists with no rhythm

my teacher told me I get extra credit if I write a sonnet so here I am

Very useful 10 minutes!

Tupac Amaru Shakur brought me poetry entity... here from his disposition. He said Iambic pentameter is ,... I always remember that.

You could begin by thinking about something you wish to praise.

I wrote a poem and realized I've been doing some things correctly! It's still bad though, so I'll go back and revise.

great video ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Danke shoen!

amazing explanation

cool

My teacher is making me write a sonnet and another poem and this is so hard with this rhyme scheme 😐😭, I LITERALLY CANT THINK, help me 😭

Thank you so much!

It's been so long since I have eaten food I fear my strength will leave and I won't wake I drift into a dark and weakened mood Will you give me a meal for goodness sake? Dry skin, blurred vision, metal taste and smell My senses fail. I shall prevale. Exhale. I lay in streets or sidewalks hidden well So police don't think me a troubled male I keep to myself. Yes sir I don't beg. But if you see my daughter please tell her I tried but lost my way with my one leg My capitol is nihl, find me a herse A victem spawned from negativity Escape is not within this tragedy

This was really helpful thank you so much Love from BD

Thank you for this very simple and informative tutorial. I appreciated how easy you make this seem. I would like to write a sonnet for the Sun. :)

thanks for helping to write my essy

oh my god, I am reading everything as a sonnet! :)

Thank you so much!!!! 😍😍

Thanks bro

Thank you! This is really helpful! I do have a question though: how do you find the stress of monosyllabic words?

Good video.

Hey dad

Thanks!!!!!

What about trochaic, anapestic and dactylic? I understand with iambic what the others? pls

Thanks

EXCELENTE!!!

Must the rhyme scheme in a quatrain (first 4 that is) be ABAB or can it be AAAA?

teach made me watch it ):::::::::::::::::::::

i know now how to write a sonnet, but i don't know how to start. My teacher assign us to write a sonnet about life but I don't know how to start. Can you guts help me pls..

6:52 boom

thanks for this Sir! hihi

I’m doing a sonnet today and I came here

this help soo much thix

Napaka Ganda na sonnet to Sana magawa ko din ingat lagi manoytv

its concept almost similiar with PANTUN

what is the group of 6 lines called ?

Cool video. Anyone heard of 365 Days of Verse? This guy wrote a sonnet every day for a year. Kind of crazy, but also pretty cool. He has youtube videos and a blog.