Storm Sonnet

This is a sonnet form created by Mark A. Whittington-Buckley, aka Stormy22 on Allpoetry.

This is a stanzaic sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains and a couplet

The rhyme pattern is abcc deff ghii jj

It is normally written in iambic pentameter

But the poet may choose trochaic , (the poet may also choose to pen in tetrameter)

The volta or turn is to occur at or following line 9.

Example Poem

We've Been Big-Bangwashed   (Storm Sonnet )

When theories become so manifest

To question. is to don the dunces cap,

the cliques and guilds are apt to take offense

at any view , to them not making sense.

Advanced math models beyond reason's realm

with black unknowns PROVE model is correct.

The Big old Bang promoted as though law

is theory, and now we've found a flaw.

When Hubble  posited the universe

expands, deduce from Doppler  measurements

now known to scientists as the red-shift

it "proved" the model was their greatest gift.

But now clear thinking folks have found indeed,

that other forces add to red-shift speed.

  © Lawrencealot - February 24, 2012

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America Forte

 Invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines

Quatrazain

Iambic Petameter

Three Quatrains + Ending couplet

Rhyme Scheme:  abab bbcc cdcd dd

 Associated form: American Libra = abab bbcc cdcd ee

Example Poem

Lead and Follow  (American Forte Sonnet)

Just follow your individual quest.

Pursue what stimulates your mind and soul.

When you've done jobs with care, and done your beat

That's all that counts and that's your only role.

Compare not yourself; other's have their goal,

which may not seem in synch, in part or whole.

You need not better any one, but need

to do your very best, then you succeed.

You may have skills enabling you to lead.

That leadership is not the goal, you see.

But if you can help others when they need

a guide, you just help building their esprit.

Where you should follow, don't compete; be free

to play roles that enhance in small degree.

© Lawrencealot   Oct.16, 2012