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Category Archive: Sonnet

A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with a particular rhyming scheme. A Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.
An Petrarchan/Italian sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet, rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd, or in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet. Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line, but Italian Sonnets can also have 11 syllables per line. There are many variations (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet)

Exiles and Enlightenments (a sonnet)

A deserted beach, shipwreck on the shore, Desolate remains of a life once shared, Before it was clear […]

November 28, 2016 Formal Poetry, Poetry, Sonnet

Memento Mori (A Sonnet)

Went down the desert where the vultures feed On human flesh rotting in the sunshine. Pluck eyes, testicles, […]

October 13, 2016 Formal Poetry, Poetry, Sonnet
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