I chose to expand upon the suggested topic for the sonnets: Senioritis. Yes, Senioritis is the epidemic that seems to have exponential growth among all Seniors in high school across the nation when first semester is over. My sonnet explores the typical conscience of the everyday American high school senior; putting in minimal work is, in an essence, all we have on our minds so that we can keep the acceptance offers given by the colleges we strove to be admitted to.
The overall rhyme scheme/structure of my sonnet is ABAB in Quatrin 1, CDCD in Quatrin 2, EFEF in Quatrin 3, and a GG couplet. A rhyme scheme of this set up parallels the manner in which Shakespeare composed his sonnets. Like in most of Shakespeare's sonnets, my sonnet opens with the exposition, where I am overcome with feelings of intense weariness, sleep, and essentially unproductively. I have spent the last three and a half years of my life working my tail off to get accepted into the college of my dreams, and I have been accepted. The hard work has paid off, and to reward myself, my body wants to shut down for all the lost hours of sleep that have accumulated throughout the years. Then the realization (challenge/problem) occurs that I may possibly have my letter of acceptance revoked as a result of my recent behavioral change. I come to a bitter compromise where I will do minimum work to just barely make it by. Senioritis has taken effect.
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