Time to try my hand at an English (or Shakespearean) sonnet! Remember, that's 18 lines (four quatrains and a couplet) with rhyme scheme ABAB ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, typically in iambic pentameter.
Let's do this!
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If you see a Weeping Angel, don't blink!
Keep it entirely in your sight.
Your eyelids may be on the brink,
But the urge to close them you must fight.
Don't move, don't breathe, don't talk or think.
Just stare and watch despite the light.
Keep both eyes open, or if you must, wink:
If you blink, you'll open your eyes to quite a fright.
But you can't just stand and stare forever.
Eventually you'll avert your glance.
You'll have to get a little clever,
And take a little bit of a chance.
It will freeze at anything living's gaze,
Including its very own.
To freeze it for the rest of its days,
And leave it safely alone,
Place a mirror in front of it to show it its reflection,
And you can escape from it without detection.
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Yup, that's a sonnet about Weeping Angels. Not in any particular meter, but there it is. Enjoy that.
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