Chained Sonnet

Chained Sonnet

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.

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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.

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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.

© Lawrencealot - February 23, 2014

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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.

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.”

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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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