Who would have thought?

Write a poem, rhyming this and rhyming that;
Never was my favorite scheme.
Oh, drat, distracted by the cat.
Now where was I, Oh, I need a theme

Thinking of my days in school,
Never was I considered cool.
Making all the grades to please,
Some subjects went by with ease.

Taking tests and making charts,
How will these dreaded skills,
Help to meet all life’s ills?
Diagramming sentences must be an art!

Well, look at that, I wrote a sonnet
And now I wear a teacher’s bonnet.

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- Pushkin Sonnet: (Half English and half Italian)

RHYTHM: Iambic pentameter

RHYME: ABAB CCDD EFF EGG or ABAB CCDD EFFE GG

OF NOTE: Made famous by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. If you set it up as the first rhyme scheme (two quatrains and two tercets - more Italian), then the turn would be with the ninth line. If you choose the other (more English), then the volta would be in the ending couplet. Description from "My Site Newsletter Journal" .