La Germania

This form is another invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes

rhyming pattern: abba acca cddc dd

format: English (quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet)

Example Poem

Was I Judged?      (La Germania)

Accepting people as they are to me

has made my life a fun and fine affair.

I find surprises happen when you care.

An honest interest sets many free.

The dullest stranger has a history

that may astound, amaze, and entertain,

a history they're happy to explain,

to work through how today has come to be.

A page long post you sent with this refrain:

"Refrain from judging people sir; just wait,

and walk in shoes that led them to their fate."

That you would think I would not caused me pain.

I'm thankful that your post was boiler plate.

There's no room left within my heart for hate.

© Lawrencealot - November 15, 2013

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Doggonnet

This form was invented by Larry Eberhart, aka Lawrencealot on AP.

It was spawned by the apparent fixation contest hosts had with brevity at the time.

This is what would be called a "gadget" sonnet.

They rhyme scheme is that of an English Sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg

All lines are six syllables.

REQUIRED:

Two of the quatrains MUST be iambic trimeter.

The other quatrain MUST be trochaic trimeter.

The couplet may be either meter.

Example Poem

Ain't That a Bitch?

She's a cute and tiny

pup I think I'll like,

Don't she have a hiney?

Where'd ya find her, Mike?

You fabricated her?

She's just an artifact?

and that's not really fur?

That's me in the abstract?

I'm gonna be depressed

I'm ready for a mate.

But facts must be confessed.

I'll be content to wait…

     before the dating starts,

     find one with all the parts.

August 28, 2013

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Curtailed Quantrelle

A further development of (D.D. Michaels)  Quaintrelle form by Marcy Jarvis, aka ea on Allpoetry.com

it is a sonnet written as follows:

* Three four-line stanzas with syllable counts of 8, 8, 8, 6 in each stanza, written in iambic meter.

* The third line in each stanza contains internal rhymes on the 4th and 8th syllables in that line.

* The rhyme scheme for the first two stanzas is aa(bb)c dd(ee)c. 

* The rhyme scheme for the third stanza is ff(gg)h. (Alternatively, the h line may rhyme with the c lines.)

* The final two lines have 8 syllables each, are in iambic meter, and rhyme as a couplet: ii.

Example Poem

Volta Optional     (Curtailed Quaintrelle)

What twisted thinking must I use 

to try this form yet not abuse 

the notion held that sonnets meld 

a volta, or a twist? 

I boldly pound this keyboard now, 

I think I've found the lee just how 

allowing me, somehow the glee 

I'm apt not to resist! 

I'll let this sonnet, as it should, 

meander through here looking good, 

then without fail, right here, curtail 

a volta!  Pound my fist! 

The Nevada Sonnet: is the same. 

Internal rhyme with sonnet name. 

© Lawrencealot - April 23, 2012

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Gloria cum Noynoy - Italianic

The PGMA Sonnet was invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes

on January 28, 2009 named in honor of:

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga. She was the country's second female president (after Corazón Aquino), and the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal.

  

The PGMA rhyme scheme has been renamed Gloria cum Noynoy Italianic rhyme scheme in memory both of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her successor Pres. Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III who was her student at Ateneo where she once taught. 
"I named a rhyme scheme jointly for the two Philippine presidents as a statement that it was during their presidency that I wrote my 2154 sonnets."  Jose Rizal M. Reyes
Annotated 12/24/2012

rhyming pattern: abba abba cddc dd

Example Poem:

California Grows Nevada     (PGMA Sonnet)

When California raised the rate at which 

it taxes the "rich" it assured one thing. 

In Nevada, cash registers will ring. 

The small businesses won't just stay and bitch. 

Some are bound to stay; many though will switch 

to states nearby where taxes have less sting. 

These states will see a relative upswing. 

Increasing taxes simply won't enrich. 

Thanks Wilson, for a few more jobs right here

in Nevada; it's appreciated. 

Though Dems seem to think it's complicated, 

it's really not, to me it is quite clear. 

When their quest to tax is finally sated 

We could end-up overpopulated. 

     © Lawrencealot - December 23, 2012

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Word Sonnet

Introduced originally in 1985 by New Formalist, American poet Brad Leithauser.
 It has been quite popularized.  I find no formal specifications, so interpret as follows.
Quatorzain
One word per line
Consists of three quatrains plus a couplet
Volta at poets option.
 I feel that to use other than an established sonnet rhyme pattern would be neglect.

Example Poem:


Diligent Shopping  ( Word Sonnet)

Pensive-
good
food
Expensive.

Tasteful
home
grown
unwasteful.

Convenient,
beer
here -
lenient.

But
What?

(c) Lawrencealot - November 18, 2012

Volta at 13 (sneaking into it at 12)

Germanic Caudated Sonnet

This a form of the super sonnet class invented by

Jose Rizal M. Reyes on June 9, 2009 This is a triple tailed sonnet

abba bccb cddc dd / dee dff dgg

3 quatrains + couplet + 3 tercets

natural place for the volta is line 13, but poet may choose.

Example poem:

Envy then Punish the Rich      (Germanic Caudated Sonnet)

In every age some chosen few have ruled

despite the form of government in place.

Laws are the tools that often bring disgrace

Eventually when power's overruled.

Entrusted senators, to win their race

now tell the public what it wants to hear.

Views shared with some are hushed, but its clear

your wants  will yield to those more highly placed.

Rich men can fund campaigns and make appear

Innumerable chances to obtain

considerable wealth with little pain.

Handshake contracts let fairness disappear.

`

Indeed we viewed the scoundrels with disdain  

no doubt, but set our course to our own gain.

Occupy Wall street  meant that one would train

until they could perform those jobs that paid

real bucks for successful decisions made.

Some joined those rich, and walked in their terrain

and moved their family's fortunes up a rung,

denouncing whining as song to be sung.

Alas our masses want the rich contained;

government must now give punishment to those

employers rising in the path they chose.

*

© Lawrencealot December 1, 2012 

It happens that this poem is also an acrostic sonnet.

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Tennyson-Turner’s Sonnet

Charles Tennyson-Turner’s Sonnet

Rhyme scheme: abab  cdcd  effe  fe
Meter: Consistent or iambic pentameter
Structure: Three quatrains and a resolving couplet



Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Tennyson-Turner Sonnet)

Should you be moved to speak in anger, dear,
I ask that first you test your words alone.
You'll want to be assured your meaning's clear.
If anger stems from blunder of my own.

If meaning's very clear, then is it fair?
Is it essential now that blame be found?
Are these first words intended to repair?
will such proceed toward a common ground?

Perhaps, the words should simply disappear
for now, until your anger can abate.
There's nothing risked delaying words that grate.
Unleashed, harsh words will travel like a spear.

Soft words at night do share a common trait-
they urge me to make problems disappear.

(c) Larencealot - May, 2012



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Spenserian Sonnet

A variation the English form is the Spenserian sonnet,
named after Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599) in which the rhyme scheme is,
abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee
In a Spenserian sonnet there does not appear to be a requirement that the
initial octave set up a problem that the closing sestet answers, as is the
case with a Petrarchan sonnet.
Instead, the form is treated as three quatrains connected by the
interlocking rhyme scheme and followed by a couplet.
The linked rhymes of his quatrains suggest the linked rhymes of such
Italian forms as terza rima.


Poem Example:

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Spenserian Sonnet)

Should you be moved to speak in anger dear
I ask that first you test your words alone.
You'll want to be assured your meaning's clear.
Sometimes context will change with spoken tone.

If anger stems from blunders of my own
There's nothing risked delaying words that grate.
I'll be contrite as in the past I've shown
so wait, my love for anger to abate.

In calmness we can set the record straight
I think harsh words will simply disappear
when dulcet tones from you do emanate.
Your goal will be achieved I think, my dear.

My love, use whispers closely late tonight.
I love you, honey; I will make it right.

(c) Lawrencealot - March, 2012



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Slide Sonnet

The Slide Sonnet is created be Victoria Sutton aka "PassionsPromise."  

Like most sonnets, it has 14 lines. 

It is composed with eight syllables to each line. 

The first half of the first line of each stanza “slides” 

to the last half of the third line, 

creating a unique poetic repetition.  

The rhyme scheme may be “aabb ccdd eeff gg” 

or “abab cdcd efef gg” or abba cddc effe gg"

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Slide Sonnet)

If you should speak in anger, dear, 

first speak where only you can hear 

then speak softly if you should speak 

Good results come from this technique. 

If meaning's clear, is message fair? 

Are words intended to repair, 

if so, they will if meaning's clear 

for your goals are mine too my dear.

The words can wait, while anger cools 

and then converse when reason rules. 

I will be here, the words can wait.

You views I will appreciate. 

Use whispers closely late tonight. 

And honey I will make it right. 

aabb ccdd eeff gg  or abab cdcd efef gg or abba cddc effe gg

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Shadow Sonnet

Created by Amera Anderson
May be written in any sonnet style. The Shadow takes place at the beginning and ending of each line as the words are identical or homophonic words or
their derivatives.
14 lines
Should have a volta or pivot (if original form does)
Iambic pentameter is not necessary

Example Poem:

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers    (Shadow Sonnet)

Speak not in anger, though mad when you speak.
Compose yourself then attempt to compose
phrases defining call to act, phrases
filled not with blame, but requests I can fill.

Partners resolve issues when as partners
they proceed- each understanding that they
own both messages, not merely their own.
I want my final words to be, "Aye aye."

Wait while upsets subside. It's worth the wait.
Care taken framing talk is proof you care.
Help smoothing objections is a big help
solving any problem which we must solve.

Nighttime brings closeness with romance of night.
Whispered concerns vanish with a whisper.

(c) Lawrencealot - March 30, 2012

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Sestina Sonnet

The Sestina Sonnet is written in ten-syllable lines(usually iambic pentameter) and is structured with three stanzas; three quatrains(four-line stanzas) and a concluding couplet(a two-line stanza). The interesting thing about the Sestina Sonnet is that it actually doesn't rhyme. It retains the Sestina qualities by repeating the end-words of lines throughout the piece.

The four words that end the lines of the first stanza, end the lines of the other two stanzas, in a different order each time. The last stanza, uses two of those words per line, with one in the middle and one at the end of the line.

Example Poem:

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Sestina Sonnet)

Don't start a message with an angry word
for voice will carry tones that are not right
for saying what is needed to be heard.
An angry start can last until the night.

Daytime travails get pushed away at night
and 'ere we sleep all problems should be heard.
Tell me I've goofed without an angry word.
We'll fix it, regardless of who is right.

Experience shows that you're usually right
unless you misunderstood deed or word.
A certain magic when we talk at night
yields solutions from voices that are heard.

You will be heard and things will work out right.
Tell me at night by way of whispered word.

(c) Lawrencealot - November 7, 2012


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In previous examples I have show most set for Iambic so let's be different here.

Sapphic Ode Sonnet

NOTE: This is admittedly and intentionally not the formal Sapphic Verse.

When I found this construct I did not capture the creator's name, and now that I am making the forms public, I would very much like to provide attribution.  If anyone can help it will be added with appreciation.

3 quatrains composed of 3 lines of iambic  tetrameter
   and a 4th line of iambic dimeter,
closing couplet in iambic tetrameter
Rhyme Scheme: abab cdcd efef gg



Example Poem:

Seasoned Harvest (Sapphic Ode Sonnet)

We gamboled through the summer hay-
alfalfa growing green and tall
enough to hide in anyway,
when we were small.

I had no sibling, nor did she
and neighbors weren't  that near those days.
We'd languor in the apple tree
those summer days.

She grew up lithe and comely yet
while I was craggy faced and shy
through school she did not once forget
I was her guy.

When I asked she did not demure;
"Me, marry you?"she said, "Why sure."

© Lawrencealot - Oct. 18, 2012



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Rubaiyat Sonnet

The original Rubia came from Persia.

Consisting of four lines (quatrain), that can be

of tetrameter or pentameter form.

Rhyming: aaba, bbcb, ccac, aa

There isn't any mention iambs in this form of sonnet. 

Example Poem:

Finish in Glee

Rise up- find the child within

She can play without chagrin.

She has shared you long with me

Let her play with us begin.

Let my child within be free

to reflect with company,

aged but still embracing schemes.

Anxious now for what we'll see.

Serious jobs done now it seems.

Let's now play with mind's own dreams.

We can be silly now and enjoy

watching views of life's extremes.

Hidden by convention's din

shines undimmed to child within.

(c) Lawrencealot - September 22, 2012

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Romblomanon Sonnet

Quatorzain Generally  Iambic Pentameter
Volta at or following line 9
Quatrain + Couplet + Two quatrains
Rhyme scheme:  aaaa bb cccc dddd
This is a form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines


Example Poem:

The Hylonome'  (Romblomonan Sonnet)

I wanted so to be a Hylonome'
the half-woman half horse said once to rome
thru myths, inscribed in ancient dusty tome.
"No, shan't display your breasts away from home."

"But Dad, my tits are finer than my face.
You promised me I'd win a premier place."

"You shall, you have provided me a clue.
Now please go way, I'll see what I can do."
His art with leather shined with stitches true,
and art was wearable when  dad was through.

Her boobs were covered, crushed and that was sad,
but she her face was hidden, that's not bad.
She worn the finest horse-head to be had
and winning first place surely made her glad.


© Lawrencealot -  Oct 31, 2012



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Quatern Sonnet

The original Quatern was a French form consisting of three,
four line stanzas and containing a couplet refrain.
As is normal with French poetry it was constructed using eight syllable lines.
No meter or rhyme scheme was specified.
The Refrain is the first line of the first stanza,
and becomes the second line of the second stanza,
the third line of the third stanza and
finally the last line of the last stanza.
The well known Australian poet Bruce Henderson
suggests replacing the final quatrain with a couplet,
thus making it "a little song".

Quatern Sonnet Template
Note: NO Rhyme required, but ANY permitted,  I have shown common choices.


Example Poem:

Let's write a new Quatern Sonnet

Eight syllables four of which slide
from each stanza by line they glide.
No rhyme required but here I tried.

No meter was specified, yet
for this single Quatern Sonnet
I've used iambic meter tet!
Insulted some back there I'll bet.

Refrains can play like Quaterns do.
Hence naming should make sense to you,
but "sonnet" in Quatern Sonnet
Means fourteen lines in this guy's  view.

We had the thought in our bonnet;
now we've penned a Quatern Sonnet.

(c) Lawrencealot - June 25, 2012


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Philippine Stanza Sonnet (Previously called Luzvimninda Sonnet)

3 quatrains + couplet
Generally Iambic Petameter
Volta at or following line 9
3 Quatrains + Couplet
Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cccc dd
This is a form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines


Example poem:

Write a Philippine Stanza Sonnet   (Philippine Stanza Sonnet)

You cannot name this sonnet in Trochaic,
nor Iambic - either for heaven's sake?
Four quatrains, each one mono-rhymed will make
this writing seem an easy piece of cake.

While Philippine will scan well on its own
and Stanza fits, like Sonnet, when alone
together three are far from metric prone.
I didn't need to, I just like to moan.

But now the  iambs have been established well,
I have but one more factoid I must tell:
Using a tetrameter would be swell.
In monotetra rhyme it does excel.

So now we've done it, finally we're all through.
I walked you through it  - now you write one too.

(c) Lawrencealot - Oct 31, 2012


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Philippine Sonnet

Quatorzain - Generally Iambic Pentameter
Volta at or following line 9
3 Quatrains + Couplet
Rhyme scheme:  aaaa bbbb aaaa cc
This is a form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines


Example Poem:

Morning Coffee, Before Work  (Philippine Sonnet)

The do-nut shop was open every day
we gathered there so we could have our say.
The "regulars" would leave their cup to stay
on hook-board: their own coffee cup buffet.

The hunters met the councilmen and cops,
and teachers met their students' moms and pops.
The farmers spoke of watering their crops,
and sporting brags and bullshit never stops.

A newcomer just didn't hood much sway
the coffee group was small-town thought per-se
The men would read, the women might crochet
until the conversation turned their way.

I learned more there than I did watching news
and found a balanced set of rural views.

© Lawrencealot - October 30, 2012

Passion Sonnet

The Passion Sonnet, created by  Victoria Sutton, aka, PassionsPromise,
is composed using the rhyme scheme of the traditional Shakesperian sonnet  but lines 1 and line 3 form the closing couplet and line 4 acts as a refrain line.
Ideally composed in iambic pentameter or decasyllabic lines.

Rhyme Scheme
A1 b A2 B1
b c B1 c
B1 d b d
A1 A2



Example Poem:

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Passion Sonnet)

Oops Wait! Don't speak out in anger now dear.
I want to be receptive not hostile.
Instead come close and whisper in my ear
for whispers naturally make me smile.

If anger boils now dear, just wait a while
then hold me and whisper andbe amazed.
for whispers naturally make me smile.
All your concerns will quickly be appraised.

for whispers naturally make me smile.
and angry is not how I prefer you.
Just state what you need without any guile.
and it will be yours quite before we're through.

Oops Wait! Don't speak out in anger now dear.
Instead come close and whisper in my ear.



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Kiwi Pause

NOTE:  I have become AWARE that there EXISTED A SONNET FORM named NEW ZEALAND SONNET

Before the creation of the form by the same name by Jose Rizal M. Reyes, which I introduced here.

For clarification, until Jose has time and inclination to

resolve the conflict I'll refer to his as Kiwi Sonnet, a sub-title he did provide.

New Zealand (Kiwi)
Renamed here to  Kiwi Pause - Suggested by creator.

Quatorzain, Generally Iambic Pentameter or tetrameter

Volta at or following line 9

3 Quatrains + Couplet

Rhyme scheme:  abba ccdd effe gg

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

Visual Template for Kiwi Sonnet
Note:  The template still bears the original, inappropriate name.

New Zealand Sonnet

Marked by its isolation from the two major sonnet sources, the New Zealand sonnet is a hybrid of Italian, English with the French influence of interlocking the quatrains; remembering that although a former English colony a few islands in the Pacific are French speaking.

Here is the rhyme scheme;

a. b. a. b. . . b. b. c. c. . . c. d. c. d. . . e. e.

Here is an example.

Pasted from <http://thepoetsgarret.com/sonnet/newzealand.html>

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Marshalline Sonnet

The Marshalline Sonnet form is created by: AP poet; Mairi bheag.  

Quatorzain - 9 syllable Line

Generally Volta at or following line 9

3 Quatrains + Couplet

Rhyme scheme:  abab cdcd efef gg

This is a wonderful form that allows us to use feminine words for end line rhymes. 

9 syllables per line with the following meter: 

iamb-iamb-iamb-amphibrach

Example Poem: 

Write a Marshalline Sonnet

To write a Marshalline type sonnet

beware that physical internal

daDUM (five times) repeated on it

won't fit into the Marshal's kernel.

The kosher form induces clatter

by truncating the pentameter

by half a foot so lines end flatter,

but longer still than tetrameter.

Just nine syllables emphasizing

the lines all ending somewhat tepid

with feminine rhyme, realizing

that women often are intrepid.

This rhyme, and syllables persisting

Is stuff of what this form's consisting.

© Lawrencealot - October 29,2012

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