The Escape From The Sad Heart

The Escape From The Sad Heart

By Paul McCann

Sad heart please disguise
For I cannot hide
how I feel inside
Tears behind my eyes
My sad hearts capsized
Shipwrecked by the tide.
My thoughts start to slide
Into a sunrise
Its there I escape
Like a bird in flight
There I feel the shape
of ships in the night
On a lost landscape
far away from sight

Footnote ;

This structure is a sonnet which has fourteen line in the poem .

There is a specific rhyming pattern and meter.

The rule is to keep to a set of alternate

and/or iambic pentameter variations.

A good example of this is breaking up the stanza into an 8 - 6 verse style,

and then forming a structure as a songwriter would with a basic AABA method , i.e. Verse Verse Chorus Verse.

Using this principle the sonnet may follow a rhyming pattern such as ABBAABBA for the first 8 lines and then CDECDE and GG which permits the 14 line sonnet to be broken into 3 groups of 4 and 1 final group of 2 rhyming lines to finish.