The sheep bow down their heads on blades of grass
Through pastures of the days or of the shades
Of their own heads, of their simple fuss
About the grass, that leads and feeds and fades.
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Lela, I like what you have done here. This use of the sonnet is well executed. A change in the argument usually takes place in the ninth line or thereanouts but you leave it to the final couplet and it works well.
Normally I crige at the rhyme of 'flowers' and 'hours' but I think you make it work well here.
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Lela, I like what you have done here. This use of the sonnet is well executed. A change in the argument usually takes place in the ninth line or thereanouts but you leave it to the final couplet and it works well. Normally I crige at the rhyme of 'flowers' and 'hours' but I think you make it work well here.