Sonnet - tell me if this is okay please.

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We had to write a sonnet (with iambic pentameter- which I suck at) and I need someone to edit, mainly with the stressed and unstressed syllables in all the right order.

Each one is an adventure for your joy,

To travel the world and go unseen places.

These take you back to when you were a boy,

When our wild imagination embraces

The land around and makes a get-away.

It is like magic, the way it unfolds

and turning the hours, passing the day,

By keeping you absorbed, for days untold.

You can sail with pirates on the high seas,

Or solve a hard mystery of murder,

Maybe save a damsel from sorceries,

Or travel with a simple sheep herder.

These tales have been written for everyone;

more than a book, the learning just begun.

Doctor D · Accepted Answer

Yes, your rhythm is off in many places. A sonnet doesn't have to be strictly iambic pentameter (or it would sound fake). But that rhythm should dominate. I think we can sharpen the pattern (and the sense). Remember, you want the pattern:
unstresss STRESSED / unstressed STRESSED / unstressed STRESSED ...
My suggested lines and my notes about them are in bold. These are just suggestions--there are countless ways to write the same poem. By the way, be sure to title the poem. It helps focus the reader.

Each one is an adventure for your joy,
Each book is an adventure giving joy,
<"book" and "giv-ing" take stronger stresses than "one" or "for your">

To travel the world and go unseen places.
<One syllable too many>To travel the world, its unseen places

These take you back to when you were a boy,
<The line works fine, except you are now talking about the past, were, and the next lines are in the present: embraces, makes. I'm sure you don't want to say "embraced," so you will need to change this after all.>
These take you back to be again a boy

When our wild imagination embraces
<too many syllables> Whose wild imagination embraces

The land around and makes a get-away. <okay>

It is like magic, the way it unfolds
<The natural stresses here and in the next line are not iambic. For example, in the phrase "the way it"--the natural stress falls on "way" not, as you wish, on "the" and "it." And in the next line, stresses naturally fall on turn, hours, pass and day, giving you four, not five stresses, and in the wrong places. However, I would not try to rewrite them for the sake of the rhyme.>

and turning the hours, passing the day,
By keeping you absorbed, for days untold.
<Or, just because: To keep you swallowed up for time untold.>

You can sail with pirates on the high seas,
<Most of the stresses are in the wrong place here. "YOU can SAIL with PIrates" is the natural stress, but the poem calls for the unnatural "you CAN sail WITH piRATES"--so rearrange:
Go sail with pirates on the hard high seas>

Or solve a hard mystery of murder,
<"Mystery" (accented on the first syllable) needs to be moved to make the stresses work:
Or solve a mystery of dark murder.>

Maybe save a damsel from sorceries,
<This is full of backward stresses: STRESS unstress, instead of unstress STRESS. "Save", for example, is stressed and you want an unstressed word in that spot:
Go save a damsel from black sorceries.>

Or travel with a simple sheep herder. <okay>

These tales have been written for everyone;
more than a book, the learning just begun.
<The last lines should be clear and strong. I am not sure these do anything more than rhyme. Rewrite. Try to end on a higher note:
More than a book, our learning's just begun
Because the Road of Life starts on Page One.

This has been fun. Take what you want from my suggestions.

Sonnet - tell me if this is okay please.

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