Hello Robert, this is a lovely tribute to your lady.

I have never written one of these sonnets. The Shakespearean sonnets that I have are written using iambic pentameter. Does the bowlesian sonnet require this, as I can see this is missing in yours. Regardless of this, this sonnet could not help anyone understand your complete and utter devotion for this lucky lady.

thank you for sharing.

I wrote one of these and to answer Michael's question, iambic pentameter is usually a requirement and the rhyme scheme is typically ABBA CDDC EFFE GG so just that first stanza that needs looking at. But as mentioned, lovely either way and never easy to accomplish.

Lovely tribute indeed. Thanks for introducing this form to us poets in this site.

Beautiful poem.