Paulo Comitatu Sonnet

Paulo Comitatu means  "Little Train" in Latin.

This Sonnet was created by Lawrencelot, using the Paulo Comitatu poetry form designed by Allan R. Emery, aka Joe King on Allpoetry.

I think all credit for the form should go to him, after all I simply added a heroic couplet to his already existing work and expanded the metric options.

Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines,  has identified sonnets of the head, the heart, and the hand.

I believe Joe King has a reverence for the traditional sonnets of the head and heart, and therefore would not himself (I suspect) compose a "gadget" sonnet-  (those which Jose refers to as sonnets of the hand.)

I have no such reservation.  Here is a form that will lend itself well to levity, capriciousness, and mirth, simply because mono-rhyme plays to that arena, as does the late volta.

This sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains, the first line of each being iambic  pentameter or tetrameter, and  the next three being one foot less (tetrameter or trimeter).

The closing couplet is Iambic pentameter.

Rhyme scheme: abbb accc deee dd

Visual Template (Pentameter Option)