Sonnets

I'm in a class called the history of creativity. It's basically just a history class that highlights creative inventions, strategies, and art developed throughout history. I was supposed to work on this semester-long project for a few months, but guess who started last week. Yours truly. :) Anyway, you can't really start the project until you know what's going on in the class. You can choose whatever you want to do the project on, and I'm combining Shakespearean sonnets with events in history (via the ABC's). Hopefully this all makes sense. I've written three so far, and I just want feedback. Is this lame? Be honest!

Here's the format of a sonnet:
o Sonnets—very tight poetic form.
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
14 lines
The first 12 lines set the problem—the last 2 give the resolution

Also, the lines are set in iambic pentameter, meaning there are 10 syllables in a line and every second syllable is stressed. da DA da DA da DA da DA da DA (That's the only way I can think to explain it.)

Sonnet 1 Astronomy

Astronomy, the study of the stars,
With planets and the sun in outer space.
Celest’ial bodies like the one called Mars,
A science oh so far, it’s hard to trace.

The Cath’lic Church had views about the heav’ns;
No man would dare dispute its classic thought.
Nic’las, the boy orphaned at age elev’n,
Would change it—on his deathbed he had fought.

The Book of Revolutions was then born,
A preface to the pope was in it writ.
A new idea inside of him had torn,
The universe, the sun the mid’ of it.

This science, once held back by Cath’lic thought,
It thrives in many classes where now taught.

Sonnet 2 Baroque

The style created solely to impress
With massive and elab’rate monuments.
Chiaroscuro painting at its best,
Emotion to show off ladies and gents.

Dynamics in the music magnified,
With opera, homophony, and more.
Returning to the past, composers tried,
The singer added to the music’s score.

Then Don Quixote, the first novel born
Appealed to young and old readers as well.
New writing genres here would e’er adorn,
John Milton and Defoe could tell the tale.

Baroque, elab’rate language and techniques,
With big effects and size would reach its peak.

Sonnet 3 Civil Disobedience

A touchy subject here, to say the least,
‘Twas Gandhi’s way to make our lives more just.
Ideas not taken from religious priests,
But Emerson, Thoreau now as the dust.

It is a citizen’s inherent right
To act in such a way contrar’ to law
Once that which is not just is brought to light,
And nations stand and watch struggles in awe.

To be civil means lack of criminal
Behavior that’s put down by heavy force.
But is sincere, restrained, and respectful
In order to succeed on its due course.

With no ill will or hint of hatred there,
This plan of Gandhi’s could poss’bly prosper.