Prompt: Write or rewrite a paragraph of your existing work without using "to be" verbs like "is," "are," "was," and "were."
Writing any poem is difficult, and writing a sonnet is especially hard. This fourteen-line poetic form requires that each line be ten syllables of iambic pentameter and rhyme in a specific pattern: ABABCDCDEFEFGG. We are going to skip the hard work of writing sonnets by hand, instead using JavaScript to generate sonnets from a prepared data structure of rhyming lines from all 154 of Shakespeare's famous sonnets.
Crafting a sonnet, a difficult, rigidly structured poem, adds to poetry's existing challenges. The fourteen-line poetic form requires its ten-syllable lines of iambic pentameter to rhyme in a specific pattern: ABABCDCDEFEFGG. We will use JavaScript to skip the hard work of writing sonnets by hand, instead generating sonnets from a prepared data structure of rhyming lines from all 154 of Shakespeare's famous sonnets.