For the sonnets: (1) 14 lines (2) Rhyme scheme—though this does not need to be strict, exact end rhyme (3) Consider the two sonnet forms in terms of stanza format and rhyme scheme, but you may want to do a combination (like “Hap”) or a variation (like “Thinking About the Past”) (4) Consider the “volta”—the turning point of the poem and where this will fall in the poem (5) Consider the tradition of “love” poem—but this does not have to be a strict interpretation of romantic love or religious devotion. Can you use the “love” connotation in other ways? For example, Justice’s “Thinking About the Past” is a love poem, but not to a person—rather, this is a “love” poem to the past, which the speaker cannot reclaim.