Every Sonnet: Chained Sonnet

Sunday, February 23, 2014

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.

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.

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.

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