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Romance Poetry: Sonnets Part 3
For my dear friends and newsletter readers that enjoy the more traditional forms of poetry, you are in for a treat today. When I was an editor for the Romance/Love newsletter, I wrote a few newsletters on love poetry. One of those was on the sonnet. I covered over two dozen variations of the sonnet (and a half dozen more in part 2 that I wrote for a Poetry newsletter edition), and thought I covered them all. However, I recently discovered—yet again--more variations of the sonnet that didn't make it into part 1 or 2. Lucky us, we get to play with even more variations on the sonnet form. Go to "A Poet's Tool Box" [E] to find the other sonnet variations I've covered in previous newsletters. I anticipate a part 4 in the near future, as well.
BRIEF HISTORY
As I mentioned in my previous articles on the subject of sonnets, the sonnet is the poetic version of the sonata. First on the sonnet scene, around the 1200's, were the Sicilian sonnets (New Princeton 1168).
MUST HAVES
- 14 lines (***A couple exceptions are listed in the Part 1 variations.)
- Set up: An idea, issue, point of view, question, outlook or theme.
- Turn/Volta (also known as the pivot): Fortify a point, use an opposite point of view, answer a question, or take a change in direction.
- Summary: Wrap it up. Sometimes this step is combined with the volta (Turco 263).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET'S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
- Rhyme scheme (See variations.)
- Meter (See variations.)
- Where to place the turn/volta. (See variations.)
- Topic/theme
More Variations of the Sonnet
- Beymorlin Sonnet:
RHYTHM: Usually Iambic pentameter, but you can opt for a different meter, as long as you stay consistent throughout the piece.
RHYME: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG – This sonnet has both internal and end rhyme in the scheme just described. The internal rhyme should be in either the first or second syllable. Decide which syllable and then be consistent throughout the piece.
OF NOTE: The turn takes place around the ninth line. This sonnet was a seventies team creation of and named after Richard Beyer, Carl Morton and Marjorie Lees Linn.
- Glorionic Sonnet:
RHYTHM: Iambic pentameter (da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM)
RHYME: AABBBCCCDDEDEE or AABBBCCC DDEDEE
OF NOTE: The turn is in the final two lines. This sonnet was created by Gloria Martin in the 1970’s. More information can be found in “The Study and Writing of Poetry” by Wauneta Hackleman and Amy Jo Zook.
- Illini Sonnet:
RHYTHM: First line is iambic tetrameter. Second and third lines are iambic pentameter. Fourth and fifth lines are iambic tetrameter. Sixth and seventh lines are iambic pentameter. Eighth and ninth lines are iambic tetrameter. Tenth and eleventh lines are iambic pentameter. Twelfth line is iambic tetrameter, and the final two lines are iambic pentameter.
RHYME: ABCABCDBCDECEE
OF NOTE: Volta starts around the ninth line.
- Mason Sonnet:
RHYTHM: Iambic pentameter.
RHYME: ABCABCBCDBADDA
OF NOTE: Volta starts with the ninth line. This sonnet was created in the fifties by Madeline Mason. More information can be found in “The Study and Writing of Poetry” by Wauneta Hackleman and Amy Jo Zook.
- Visser Sonnet:
RHYTHM: Primarily iambic pentameter.
RHYME: ABBAABBA CDECDE.
OF NOTE: The volta may be placed wherever the poet thinks is best. Audrae Visser invented this variation.
- Zealandish Sonnet:
RHYTHM: Pick any type of pentameter (ie. Anapestic, Dactylic, Iambic, Pyrrhic, Spondaic, or Trochaic).
RHYME: ABCABCDEFD EFGG
OF NOTE: Volta starts with the ninth line. This variation was created by Larry Eberhart.
SOURCE NOTES:
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
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