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Saturday, February 1, 2014

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.



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.”



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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