Money at a Glance

Once we’d had our revolution with England and Europe,
It was time to have a revolution with our money,
The first types of money were unstable and caused a stirrup,
It had many faults and problems people didn’t find funny.

Most currency back then was a written bank note,
Intended to be traded for silver and gold,
The idea wasn’t backed up and hard to follow so it didn’t stay afloat,
There were so many types of notes that people sold it for any amount of money they could get a hold.

In 1863, the National Currency Act issued by congress,
This act helped make a similar banking system and have it organized,
This solved the problem of unstable money and ended that stress,
These mistakes were made but knowledge is then realized.

From the very first bank notes, money has made its progress,
Every step of the way, learning from our mistakes, trying not to regress.

Reflection-This poem is a Shakespearean sonnet. A Shakespearean sonnet is a sonnet that has 4 stanzas with 14 lines. The rhyming scheme is abab cdcd efef gg, with each letter representing one line and each letter rhyming with it's corresponding letter. When I started to write this poem, since this was the first post, I only needed it to give a brief overlook on money. Once I started writing, I tried to write a poem in the format of a timeline. As I moved along, I wrote whatever came to mind and sometimes going back to edit somethings to help make it smoother.