sonnet

“The form is:
abab
bcbc
cdcd
ee
14 lines in all, no need to count syllables!

"It started with a pleasurable walk,
if you wish, a hike.
To be where flora and fauna talk,
that's what I like.

Give me no road. lane or pike.
The crunch underfoot is what I seek.
Not to shave, grow a Vandyke.
Be a "Mountain Man," so to speak

Some find their gear at a fancy boutique.
You use a Leki, I'll use a stick,
(I fancy that its mostly technique,
besides, I'm a cheap prick!)

Its so hard to find the time...
harder still, to find the rhyme.



Thank you, thank you very much! I know its dumb but somebody had to start the thread and dumb threads are my speciality!”

“rock on! ya cheap prick. LOL! but for real, i heart sonnets.
:-)”

“I have some I wrote, somewhere. I think they're on my computer at home, I'll look for them later.”

“holding lighter overhead while swaying back and forth. it's unclear if the rocking motion is due to inebriation

Woooooohoooooooo!!! Freeeeebiiiiiird!!!!!!”

“Actually, there are a lot of sonnet forms, but the most common are Elizabethan, with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg, and Petrarchan? with a rhyme scheme of abbaabbacdcdcd. Both forms are typically written in iambic pentameter, which basically means ten syllables with a beat of duh-DAH duh-DAH duh-DAH duh-DAH duh-DAH...

OK, that's enough English for today, lol....”

“there are actually several forms the sonnet may take.

one of the two most common, the Italian / Petrarchan sonnet, goes:
a b b a a b b a
c d e
c d e

the English / Shakesperian sonnet is the form flyguy's talking about.

here's a sonnet website for days and days of fun!”

“wait, now i'm confused. bitpusher and i said two different things...wow, poetry class was a long time ago! well, this will give me something to do for the rest of the day, LOL!”

“okay, i think flyguy's is Spenserian, and English/Shakesperean is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. and bitpusher and i are both right on the Petrarchan...it can be both.

in case anyone cares! hee hee!”

“Other features of a sonnet:

Endstopped vs. enjambed lines...

These lines from Shakespeare are all endstopped, meaning that they don't rely on the following lines to make sense, and finish with a grammatical unit.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

These lines by John Donne (what a FREAK), on the other hand, feature enjambment, or "stepping over" of meaning to the following line.

"I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite ;
But black sin hath betray'd to endless night
My world's both parts, and, O, both parts must die."


wow, i'm having fun giving myself a refresher...”

“took the Romance language sonnetians to school. The Romance languages are much more conducive to sonnets because so many of the words end in vowels - esp Italian and Spanish:
"De la el toro.
Fo do de ha.
Mi es me cinco,
I me papa!..."

But English? Pretty tough...
except for Shakespeare.

I've done a few while and since taking English Lit in college.”