Poem 1: Legacy

Legacy

By Catherine Cao

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To Create your legacy

Stray aside

To evil implied

And enter heresy

Interfere with the enemy

From the inside

Conquer and divide

Hidden from a divine entity

Then make your way into the world

as a hero denied

To face the surfacing purgatory

That mirrors the underworld.

Only then refuse to hide

The lies within your territory

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           About

"Legacy" is about how you must make yourself different from other people in order to be seen for who you are rather than what you represent. However, you might also find that by looking from the 'left-hand' point of view, the 'right hand' view that most represent is not as perfect as is seems.

This poem is an Italian (or Petrarchian) Sonnet, following the rhyme scheme of 'abba abba cdecde'. There is no particular rhythm that was followed.

There are only two kinds of poetic devices used in this poem: Allusions and Rhyme. Examples of Allusion are on lines 4, 8, 11, and 12 referring to the state of the world as places from mythology. The 'divine entity' in line 8 represents a powerful figure in society. 

Otherwise, rhyme has been mentioned in an above paragraph.