As we watch the train wreck of so many relationships in  Anna...

As we watch the train wreck of so many relationships in Anna Karenina, we might be tempted to ask "why are so many people having so much trouble?" At the root of all our relational disasters is sin—the force that divides us from God and from each other (even as it unites us in the community of sinners that we call the human race). 

So many times, in Anna Karenina there are opportunities to for relationships to be restored. Too often, the person who needs to bring restoration cannot find the right words to move the heart of the other person. Perhaps, this is because their love has grown cold. Perhaps it is because they simply don't try hard enough. Perhaps, they just need to stop, think about things, put them into words that are true and moving and speak them to their beloved. 

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Imagine yourself in one of the following situations and write some poetry that will move the heart:

1. Imagine yourself as Anna or Alexei (not Vronsky—it is telling, I think, that there is nothing like poetry between Anna and Vronsky). In this option, you're writing to the other person prior to the adultery. What could or would you say to move the heart of the other person and re-spark the other's heart?
2. Imagine the same thing after the adultery. Hearts are further apart and pleas of forgiveness (for the adultery or for the coldness of Alexei) must be more palpable. 

here are two choices for the type of poetry you can use: free verse or a sonnet. For most broken relationships today, free verse will be the most natural choice. The sonnet is an older form and it has more rules, but that can be good sometimes. Here are descriptions of both types:

Free Verse
Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, 
(freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).

In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways 
of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the 
reader.

Following the direction of Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot, many modern day poets use 
this particular form of expression. 

Sonnet
A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme:

Examples of a rhyming scheme:

#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd  

A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg. 

An Italian sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet, rhyming 
cdecde or cdcdcd, or in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet. 

Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line, but Italian Sonnets can also have 
11 syllables per line.

French sonnets follow in this same pattern, but normally have 12 syllables per line.