Saraband Sonnet 1

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bcbc dxd efef

Example

October Nights by Jezzie G

With October nights drawing in
Autumn arrives in gowns of gold
Gathering apples for bobbin’

And Canada geese call goodbye
To journey south for winter time
A rigid v across the sky
Among the clouds in flight they climb

As northern winds begin to blow
Taking their turn to lead the squad
These wily birds know where to go

While helping each other keep up
I wish I could fly with them too
To leave life to clean itself up
Among those memories of you

Saraband Sonnet 2

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bcbc dxd effe

Example

Love in Stillness by JezzieG

How silently time passes by
Like a river that flows through fields
A force of life lost to the eye

Yet in fiery skies of sunrise
There’s a momentary stillness
Between sleeping and waking eyes
A moment for love to confess

While knowing your love is still near
Another day will pass alone
Yet holds nothing for me to fear

It’s one more day closer to you
As I sit here drinking my tea
And I whisper “I love you, too”
Soon baby, soon, you’ll be with me

Saraband Sonnet 3

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bcbc dxd eeff

Example

Perfect Love by JezzieG

She is a mystery to me
Just how she does it all and some
Being all things she needs to be

Whatever gets thrown in the mix
She hears my pain both big and small
As she finds that emotional fix
So I can stand and stand up tall

Her perfect love every day
Seems fearless when crying my tears
I know she loves me anyway

And I wonder how she does it
Her love seems a bottomless pit
As she makes me smile when I’m glum
And I am grateful for my mum

Saraband Sonnet 4

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bccb dxd efef

Example

My Light in the Dark by JezzieG

When tears were falling from my eyes
And words of love just didn’t care
You were there to hear my heart’s cries

Listening to my confused fears
While I fought those battles within
me, old wars of what might have been
But you stayed and brushed up my tears

Stood beside me as I grew weak
My world ending, falling apart
I knew your love was mine to seek

In my darkness you took my hand
When none could be bothered to care
Your love was there for me to share
My soul, only you understand

Saraband Sonnet 5

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bccb dxd effe

Example

Abiding Love by JezzieG

We stand and fight for what is right
For the truth of love, we both know
Belongs to us in sweet delight

You hold my hand to lead you through
For one day we will dance the moon
For love composed our special tune
But understand that you lead me too

For our love to be we stand as one
Forever together we are
Strong enough for the rising sun

Another day to work it out
Another night to feel you close
Sweet dreams kisses before we doze
All is okay there’s no more doubt

Saraband Sonnet 6

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bccb dxd eeff

Example

Livvy by JezzieG

I don’t want to feel love this way
For it is love I cannot share
A love that’s once upon a day

No flirty love letters to send
Yet you gaze at me from the wall
My mind runs away with it all
But reality I cannot bend

In my dreams you sing me your song
You, a super star of music
And how I have loved you so long

I look into your eyes on screen
And dream of love in baby blue
This love is pure and always true
Yet is a crush that can’t have been

Saraband Sonnet 7

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bbcc dxd efef

Example

Inside Black by JezzieG

Her secrets hidden inside black
Patent leather, and nobody knew
Behind the compact at the back

Dreams of a girl falling in love
Tucked neatly beside a white glove
His words offered from just before
The Kaiser brought about the war

His heart declared now he must fight
For her, his country, and for peace
As to her dreams she held on tight

But war is cruel with black-edged pain
His life taken in bullet fire
Letters she reads over again
Before the war she knew desire

Saraband Sonnet 8

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bbcc dxd effe

Example

Feathers of Hope by JezzieG

The feathers of destiny
Embracing hope to dream a bit
Where wings of life are flying free

Hope the bird of different song
That hold our dreams all the night long
To sing it sweetest at sunrise
Releasing our fate to the skies

A new start on another day
As our waking eyes greet the sun
The hope nothing gets in the way

Of all the plans we may have made
But some things are not for us to do
And hope helps us accept that too
So what is ours can make it through

Saraband Sonnet 9

Structure: Triplet, quatrain, triplet, and quatrain
Meter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines
Rhyme Scheme: axa bbcc dxd eeff

Example

Walking the Chase by JezzieG

To walk with you through untouched snow
The chilled breeze unnoticed by love
Just footprints behind where we go

But should I do it on my own
Making the trail through the fields alone
Would I still find the snow-kissed rose
That brushed the flakes off of my nose

Can I still feel you walking beside
Or hear you laughing through the Chase
While matching my legs stride for stride

It’s not the same out here today
And there’s no snow on the pathway
But I’m feeling you everywhere
Like a misty breath on cold air