Pre-NaPoWriMo workouts

To write a sonnet every day – my goal,
for April is a month to wax poetic.
This year my writing task might take a toll
though I hope the poems won’t be pathetic.
This year my words will be shaped to sonnet
and though I’ve not been one inclined to rhyme
I’ll don my wordsmith-rhyme-scheming bonnet,
making the feet march properly in time.
In third quatrain, the subject takes a turn
the volta changing theme or stance or view
to ask if there is something we can learn
it seeks an answer or what we may do.
The final couplet settles to complete,
keeping to the path of iambic feet.