Bardic Sonnet

Form introduce by William Kenneth Keller, aka Shades of Bill on Allpoetry
Uses the Shakespearean sonnet form.  (iambic pentameter: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme)
However the form is constrained and enhanced with the following requirements:
1.)The rhyme is to be INTERNAL CROSS RHYME,  not end rhyme. 
This is formally know as INTERLACED RHYME.
The interlaced rhymes should occur within the first 3 feet of the line.
2.)Rather than end rhyme, I would like you to employ a type of alliteration used by Irish poets – 
Which is strict CONSONANT RHYME.
Keep EACH consonant sound the same. (you can ignore the letter, ‘N’.) 
For example: carnage and carpet would NOT alliterate, but carnage and carriage would: 
the ‘K’ sound and ‘R’ sound and ‘G’ sound in ‘carnage’ is reproduced in order with the ‘K’ sound and ‘R’ sound and ‘G’ sound in ‘carriage’ (the letter ‘N’ in ‘carnage’ is ignored.)
3.)The Rhyme scheme is for both cross rhyme and alliteration.

Restated Specifications:
Uses Shakespearian Sonnet format with end-rhyme being replaced by strict consonant rhyme.
Requires Iambic Pentameter.
Requires Interlaced rhyme.

End-Rhyme scheme:     abab cdcd efef gg
Cross-rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg

My failed example:

You Ask Too Much

A poet asked the wizard for some rhyme
and for a metronomic type of mind.
"Just why am I now tasked to let rimes roam
where they'd not roamed before, to just what end?"
"For sake of sex as Miller* postulates,"
the poet answered back.  And rhyme was there. 
A metric text removes the irritants.
"I know it," the Wizard said, "You'll find it's here. 
"Can you make me more consonant aware?"
I cried,  "So Welsh and Irish I might write?"
Then he did grumble, "You keep wanting more.
If you decide that skill is worth your vote
I think you'll earn it. Go away, be gone."
I’ll try to learn it. Here I go again.

© Lawrencealot - July 6, 2013

*Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller hypothesizes that rhyme is a form of sexually selected handicap imposed on communication making poetry harder and more reliable as a signal of verbal intelligence and overall fitness.[2]
From Wikipedia


This was supposed to be a Bardic Sonnet, but failed to use all of the consonant sounds in the end-rhyme.  I post it merely to show how you can go astray on this complex if your attention waivers as mine so frequently does.

This was the contest winner.   Not only does it have perfect compliance with all of the requirements, but those who pay attention will notice that is is also an acrostic.

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Salamanders' Fireburst

This is a sonnet form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines.

It is stanzaic, consisting of three quatrains and a non-rhyming couplet.

Iy id metric, written in either iambic tetrameter or iambic tetrameter.

Rhyme pattern is abcb acdc aded ae, where the c and d rhymes must be feminine.

 Example poem

Tramp Stamp 777LLY     (Salamander's Fireburst)

I don't know why my daddy named his car.

He named it Lilly, and my mom don't care.

He says she's has a soft top that he fancies

and that she's got a tramp-stamp right back there,

and she's his ride and carries his guitar.

To name her after mom would be too chancy;

she's square,  demure and won't attract a copper

and her tramp-stamp just doesn't go with Nancy.

"She let's the dog ride with us to the bar,

she'll haul things when your mommy plays the shopper

but she dissuades my mom-in-law with charm."

Of all the things she does, well that's the topper.

She's sassy, gutsy, willing to go far,

his Lilly's cute yet causes no alarm.

© Lawrencealot - February 25, 2014

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Elfmath Sonnet

This is a sonnet form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines.

The defining characteristic is that you must use repeating end words in the rhyme scheme of any existing sonnet.

It is stanzaic, consisting of three quatrains and a couplet

Or                                           two quatrains and two tercets

It is written in iambic pentameter.

It uses WORD refrains in every stanza.

 Example poem

To Write an Elfmath Sonnet

To write an Elfmath Sonnet poets know

that they will never have to search for rhymes.

A word will rhyme with itself, that we know;

repeating words (required), will give you rhymes.

This sonnet makes demands that we use words

To end a line, so that they may repeat

because by rule, they must! Repeating words-

the specs define just where they must repeat.

But since the author specified the choice

of options that now number only three

we can't let complex rhyming be our choice.

We'll rhyme seven, or two or four- not three.

Since every time we end with couplet rhyme

I'm glad that I enjoy said couplet rhyme.

© Lawrencealot - February 25, 2014

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Note: I created the template and poem when I thought the word

Pattern Jose set forth were requirements.  They are not, they are

Only examples.  You may choose your own word pattern.

Chained Sonnet

Chained Sonnet

Type:	Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Isosyllabic, Simple, Pivot Requirement
Description:	Each line begins with the last word of the preceding line.
Notes:	To keep to iambic pentameter with this form, each line-ending word must be iambic and an even number of syllables to restart the next line keeping to meter.

Pasted from http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/002/279.shtml

Chained Sonnet is any sonnet that uses the poetic device of chaining. 

The defining features of the Chained sonnet is:

• the verse is written in any sonnet form.
• chained when the end word of the previous line is the first word of the next line.
• flexible, at the poet's discretion, to bring the sonnet full circle the first word of the sonnet is the last word of the sonnet.

Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?/topic/1053-chained-sonnet/

My Thanks to Charles L. Weatheford and Judi Van Gorden for the fine resources above.

Example Poem

Gargoyles Aren't Real - We Are     (Chained Sonnet)

Before we met I had become entranced,

Entranced by how my life had been enhanced.

Enhanced by lack of guile which so revealed,

Revealed a spirit not to be concealed.

Concealed not by an artifact deployed.

Deployed so verity is not destroyed.

Destroyed in falsity would be belief,

belief that truth would reap its own relief,

relief from wearing faces that dispute--

dispute your soul and render self abuse.

Abuse not one another with pretend.

Pretend creates facades you can't defend.

The grinning gargoyles sat and watched above,

above our heads as we two fell in love.

© Lawrencealot - February 23, 2014

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Sonondilla

This is a form invented by Charles L. Weatherford the creator of one of the best Poetry learning sites in the English speaking world.

Visit it at: http://www.poetrybase.info/forms/

In his own word Charles explains that he devloped to form to play to his own particular strengths:

Creating the "sonondilla, I actually used two existing forms. First was the Petrarchan sonnet; second was the redondilla, a purely syllabic Spanish quatrain with envelope rhyme scheme (abba).

 Based on this mixing, I came up with a fourteen line form that was syllabic, but was also tougher to rhyme than other sonnets. I'm much better at rhyming than a lot of people. (That isn't to say that I don't put out some real klinkers in my light verse.)

 So, the sonondilla's predominant rhyme scheme is abbaabbaccddcc, which is even more difficult than the Petrarchan sonnet. "

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And from  the Britannica:

redondilla, a Spanish stanza form consisting of four trochaic lines, usually of eight syllables each, with a rhyme scheme of abba. Quatrains in this form with a rhyme scheme of abab, sometimes also called redondillas, are more commonly known as serventesios. Redondillas have been common in Castilian poetry since the 16th century. The word is derived from the Spanish redondo, meaning “round.”

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So we have the Sonondilla Sonnet

It should be written in octosyllabic lines.

Meter either iambic or trochaic

Volta to appear at line 9.

My example:

Ambiguity           (Sonondilla)

In ambiguity there's hope

that your misstatement may make sense

to someone sitting on the fence

who's neither voted yep  nor nope.

Thus politician's often cope

with lack of what's called commonsense

by merely giving no offence.

If you don't get it, you're the dope.

You cannot fact check what's not said

Thus inferences that have led

to contrary conclusions are

non-specific, sometimes bizarre.

Turn off the TV, go to bed,

or watch grass grow; you'll be ahead.

©Lawrencealot - February 1, 2014

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