Sestet Challenge!

Ruby by the Winter River

by Mr. Warshaw and Ms. Agell

AKA: the alternating lines sestet experiment!

The sestet is the last six lines of a sonnet.

There's a page of resources about the sonnet here at the Virtual Poem Booth, too.

Mr. W wrote the first line, I the second

Then we alternated

Can you find the RHYME SCHEME?

(CDE CDE)

Can you guess what we’re describing before we tell (last line)?

Try a sestet yourself, with a partner or just by yourself.

Make it a riddle?

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO MS AGELL and the Poem Booth will publish them.

Though snowy in the forest, my chapped hand cradles a sunny pink treasure

a measure of summer, some sweetness amidst this cruel ice

Blue-white Kennebec crystals join Florida's golden spheres.

The sun has laid this golden egg, a morsel of light, a pleasure

In silent friendship, let's share the slices

A grapefruit! As we sit and watch for deer.