In your day we know the sonnet was the rage
but I can't write in rhyme or formal verse.
I feel constrained and locked within a cage.
In fact, I consider it a curse.

Now I find I'm being asked to do it.
"Just write," he says, "the form won't hold you back"
maintaining that there's really nothing to it.
"Just write to find out if you have a knack."

Though it's an assignment I have to do
I'm not sure there is a purpose for
this convoluted rhyme you used to woo
your listeners in days of yore.

How hard did you have to work to do it well?
Or did it come easily for you, pray tell!?