wonderful sonnet, i love how you used the old form to discribe what many people are feeling in this day and age. its written like a shakespherian sonnet, but u appear to have changed the ryhme scheme slightly, and it works for the poem. over all, loved it.

I like it; the imagery is wonderful. But the rhyming is a bit off, and I just can't seem to understand why the "in" in line four bothers me so much...But I do like it.

Interesting... the setting coudl be taken in many different times, which is good, but every now and then there is one rhyme that I think you didn't have to try so **. "The king on his golden throne" is the one that thus bothered me. But, overall nice thought that comes across clearly.