A Shakespearean sonnet about October on the James River whose fourteen first letters spell FALLINRICHMOND. Three constraints at once: the acrostic, the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter. A script checks the acrostic, the line count and the rhyme endings; the meter is read out loud.
pnpm check-constrained-writing the-acrostic-sonnet prints the fourteen lines with their first letter against FALLINRICHMOND, the end word of each rhyme pair with a spelling-based rhyme guess, and an estimated syllable count per line (an estimate: read anything outside 9-11 aloud before marking it).
Ranking: acrostic, rhyme and meter all held, and it is about the James > all three held, generic > acrostic held but rhyme or meter broken > acrostic broken.
Write a Shakespearean sonnet about October on the James River in Richmond, Virginia.
The form:
Put a title on the first line as # Title, then the fourteen lines, with no blank lines between them and no other text before or after.
I will check the acrostic, the line count and the rhymes with a script, and read the meter out loud.