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.”
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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