{"id":"create-sonnet-rhyme-scheme-check","audience":"college","category":"creative-writing","technique":"verification","track":"writing","title":"Check your sonnet's rhyme scheme without a rewrite","free":false,"task":"You wrote a Shakespearean sonnet for your poetry workshop and want to check the rhyme scheme before you submit it. Get exactly 14 numbered lines, one per line of your poem, each formatted \"1. last word - A\" with the letter that line should have in ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, then a last line starting \"Breaks:\" naming any line whose end word doesn't rhyme as it should. Plain text, and suggest no replacement words.","materialLabel":"Your sonnet draft (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MY SONNET (English 245: Poetry Workshop, Prof. Lindqvist) - \"Night Shift\"\n\nThe diner hums beneath a buzzing sign,\nthe coffee burns a circle on the tray,\nmy mother counts the tips along the line\nand folds the dollars into one more day.\nThe cook is singing something from the shore,\na song about a boat that never sails,\nthe clock above the register is sore\nwith all the hours stacked like empty pails.\nAt two a.m. the regulars come in,\nthe trucker and the nurse and the old priest,\nthey order pie and coffee, then begin\nand no one here has ever left alone.\nSo call it small, this neon-lit routine:\nit's where I learned what holding on can mean.\n\nWorkshop note: Prof. Lindqvist will check form strictly. Slant rhymes count as rhymes, but they should be close.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":14},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Getting praise, not a check","why":"Ask to 'check my sonnet' and the AI comments on imagery and theme and skips the rhyme scheme.","fix":"Ask for the check itself: \"One line per poem line: last word - letter.\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"No summary line","why":"The AI lists the rhymes but leaves you to spot the break.","fix":"Add: \"Last line: Breaks: the line numbers that don't rhyme as they should.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting fixes you'd copy","why":"The AI 'helps' by offering replacement words, which makes it its line, not yours.","fix":"Add: \"Don't suggest replacement words. I'll fix it.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in your workshop notes.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the rhyme scheme","patterns":["abab","rhyme scheme","shakespearean"]},{"label":"Asks for one line per line","patterns":["\\b14\\b","each line","per line","last word"]},{"label":"Asks for a breaks line","patterns":["break","doesn't rhyme","don't rhyme"]},{"label":"Says no replacements","patterns":["(no|don't|do not|never).{0,20}(replace|suggest|rewrite)"]}],"hint":"A form check is a list, not a review. Name the rhyme scheme, show the line shape, ask for a breaks line, and tell the AI not to fix it for you.","rubricLabels":["Each numbered line gives that line's last word and the expected letter in the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG pattern, in order","The 'Breaks:' line names line 12 ('alone' does not rhyme with 'priest') and does not name any line from the first two quatrains or the couplet","Suggests no replacement words or rewritten lines"]}