The World Of Jadeey

I have to recite a Shakespearean sonnet tomorrow in class. I've been practicing it for ages, but still only get it right about 50% of the time. There's a reason I didn't decide to be an actor!!

Here is the sonnet (I'm going to write it out from memory, I figure it'll be good practice. And Shakespeare has been dead long enough that I'm not even breaching copyright.)

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell
Nay, if you read this line remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then you then should make me woe
O, if I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse
But let your love even with my life decay
Lest this wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone


Hmmm I think I need to go practice some more. I made lots of mistakes while I was typing and had to keep going back and correcting it.

Bugger.

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