Glorionic Sonnet

The Glorionic Sonnet is an invented sonnet form inspired by the writing of John Milton. This is a contest form which has been used by many workshops. Introduced by Gloria Martin in 1976 and found in The Study and Writing of Poetry; American Women Poets Discuss Their Craft, 1983.
The Glorionic Sonnet is:
- a quatorzain made up of an octave and a sestet.
- metric, iambic pentameter.
- rhymed, aabbbccc ddedee.
- composed with the pivot in the declamatory end couplet.

Example Poem:


Stink Outside the Box        (Glorionic Sonnet)

A frequent gas from Fred, who is a Fed,
with flatulence has brought things to a head.
His supervisor's getting many calls
from other workers up and down the halls
of stink and paint now peeling off the walls.
There's no report of rumbling says the bunch,
but only smells to make them lose their lunch.
A reprimand won't work, I have a hunch.

A hostile work environment exists;
it will while his condition still persists.
Here's where compromises tried are bound to fail,
and everybody there is getting pissed.
So folks will not go postal- he must bail.
The feds should let poor Fred deliver mail.

© Lawrencealot - December 22, 2012

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Mason Sonnet

The Mason Sonnet is an invented sonnet form created by American poet Madeline Mason in 1953. It is the rhyme scheme that sets this sonnet apart from others. This was found in the Study and Writing of Poetry; American Women Poets Discuss, 1983 and has been used in workshops 

throughout the US

* a quatorzain made up of a octave and a sestet.

* metered, iambic pentameter.

* Rhyme pattern: abcabcbc dbadda

* composed with a pivot developed after the octave.

Example Poem:

Grow up Slowly        (Mason Sonnet)

I like to go to grammas' after school.

I show her what I learned today then play,

or learn a lot of stuff not in a book.

She showed me how to milk a cow. That's cool.

She showed me on the internet today.

But best of all she lets me help her cook!

We made gingerbread cookies; Grandpa took

a lot so I think they turned out okay.

Don't know what I'll  be when my growing's done,

A cook? A fireman? It's too hard to say. 

If you think I change my mind a lot, you'll

be right. My mom says choosing's half the fun.

"Take time to be a  kid and play and run."

Right now that's my grandparent's golden rule.

     © Lawrencealot - December 21, 2012

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Wyatt/Surrey Sonnet

Although the sonnet began in Italy in the 13th century, Thomas Wyatt 1503-1542, was one of the first English poets to translate and utilize the form. He used thePetrarchan octave but introduced a rhyming couplet at the end of the sestet. His friend the Earl of Surrey also initiated more rhyme.

The Italian form was restricted to 5 rhymes. After Wyatt and Surrey the sonnet could have 7 rhymes. They also shifted the sonnet away from the slightly more intellectual and argumentative Petrarchan form, and gave new importance to the ending, declamatory couplet. This Wyatt/Surrey adaptation of the sonnet has not been officially named, at least I haven't found an assigned designation yet. So for the sake of identification I call it the Wyatt/Surrey Sonnet.

The defining features of the Wyatt/Surrey sonnet are:
a quatorzain, written with a Petrarchan octave followed by an envelope quatrain ending with a rhyming couplet.
metric, primarily iambic pentameter.
the rhyme scheme is abbaabba cddc ee.
it is composed with the volta (non physical gap) or pivot (a shifting or tilting of the main line of thought) sometime after the 2nd quatrain.
distinguished by the declamatory couplet.

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Example poem:


Sentient Sonnet (Wyatt/Surrey Sonnet)

The Petrarchan form stood intellectually
rigid for two hundred years, then it stretched.
Now five rhymes seemed not quite enough, so fetched
a couple more, yawned then moved experientially
away from arguments intolerably
constricted, to a poetry that etched
the notions, bards awaited, hands out-stretched-
to write a lighter sonnet, more flexibly.

For English writing folks this ushered in
the beginning of what has never stopped.
Traditionalists chins had surely dropped.
The morphing form was changing from within.

The purists arch their brows and speak disdain,
But sonnets have transformed and will again.

© Larry Eberhart, aka Lawrencealot, Oct 12, 2012

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Wordsworth Sonnet

The defining features of the Wordsworth Sonnet are:
A quatorzain consisting of: octet  + quatrain + couplet
 metered, iambic pentameter.
rhymed abbaacca dede ff.
it is composed with the pivot or volta in the very last line.

Wordsworth embraced the Miltonic sonnet, but changed the second quatrain rhyme scheme to compensate for fewer rhyming opportunities in the English language.


Example poem:

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Wordsworth Sonnet)

Should you be moved to speak in anger, dear,
I ask that first you test your words alone.
If anger stems from blunder of my own
You'll want to be assured your meaning's clear.
Harsh words once thrown will travel like a spear.
Is it essential now that blame be found;
will such proceed toward a common ground?
The thoughts that form those words might disappear.

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.

My love, use whispers closely late tonight.
And, loving you, I will make it right.

(c) Lawrencealot - May 1, 2012

Visser Sonnet

I am exceptionally glad to add this Sonnet form to my list.
Insofar, as I know it is the only sonnet form to be created by one of the States' Poet Laureates.

Visser Sonnet - Internal rhyme only
Octet + Sestet
-Usually Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme scheme (internal only)    abbaabba cdecde
Originated by Audrae Visser,
Poet laureate of S. Dakota, 1974-2001

I found no specific column mandated for the internal rhyme
Apparently Volta is up to the poet.


Example Poem:
With Hidden Rhyme     (Visser Sonnet)

A Visser Sonnet may be hard to find,
or recognize when you do, for the rhyme
is hidden from your view except when read
aloud, then it will play.  It's internal
and nicely tucked away inside each line.
It could be blank verse too, if iams rule,
for while that form if true, denies end-rhyme
it's mute about the way one  acts inside.

Yet Visser earned our praise as she was South
Dakota's poet queen- well, laureate,
the only one of such to make this mark.
Let us our glasses raise in toast and write
a sonnet now to bring this latent form
to life and add a touch of difference.

© Lawrencealot - November 2, 2012

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Tuckerman’s Sonnet

Tuckerman’s Sonnet – abbabcab adeced
 or abbabcba bdeced

Example Poem:

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Tuckerman Sonnet)

A silence is most fine thing when irate. 

I'll want to help resolve most any plight. 

If I have blundered then I'll be contrite. 

Emotions can cause words to over state 

But calm approaches help keep troubles slight. 

Attack invokes defense without much thought. 

It's wise of you my dear, therefore, to wait, 

We want to solve a problem, not to fight. 

With cause to pause and think, I shall relate. 

So hold those words for later; don't despair 

for now. Wait 'til your anger can abate. 

Use dulcet tones to reap the goal now sought. 

I'll listen, think, and I'll appreciate. 

Speak whispers, lying close- and I'll be caught. 

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Tory Hexatet Sonnet

This is a sonnet form created byVictoria Sutton aka PassionsPromise
and name by Larry Eberhart, aka Lawrencealot

Octet + couplet + quatrain
ababcdcd ee ffgg 
first eight lines, 12 syllables,
couplet- eight syllables-
last four lines, 12 syllables
14 lines total, rhyme scheme and syllable count showed above.
the couplet, being the "changing point" -makes a direct statement and
could be read by itself-
ex.  when the mind becomes a tight rope
       heartfelt dreams fall from lack of hope.
Turning point is optional.


Example poems:


Just Makin' Hay

Three guys wouldn't touch me until I turned eight-teen.
Although my virgin license long ago expired.
The young bucks were delighted with a teeny queen.
The mature men I seek deem legal age required.
Yesterday, I told the young pups to all get lost.
They can find another or handle it by hand.
I'm only doing men now who can bear the cost.
With my young age and figure, much I can command.
     
         "Do while time bides your very whim.
           Shine.  Don't put your life-lights on dim."

I figure five years dishing sex and lust and praise.
will adequately prepare me for courting days.
I'll write, and go to school and date without tensions
that I'm confronting as youth with my dimensions.


This is a Parody of Just Another Day
                by PassionsPromise

I have copied the poem below for you convenience

Just Another Day

Thanks to those who remembered June 16, the day
I was born in Ft. Hood Texas, for all to see.
This life, one hell of a journey, burning away
all that was held close to the heart and soul of me.
Yesterday, I watched the day roll by, many tears
shed as faces without distinction waved their hand.
There were no birthday candles, no white cake, just fears
who is who and what is what, a heavy demand
        "when the mind becomes a tight rope
        heartfelt dreams fall from lack of hope..."
Just wishing the stars carried more power and praise
to strengthen this worn woman through demanding days.
Yet, one more year has come and gone, you remembered
the love of Tory before life had her dismembered.

ababcdcdeeffgg

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Sicilian Sonnet

FORM :

octave + sestet
* volta (pivot) in line 9
* written in iambic pentameter
* rhyme scheme abababab cdccdc  or abababab cdecde

Example Poem:

Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers       (Sicilian Sonnet)

Should you be moved to speak in anger dear,

I ask that first you test your words alone.

If I have blundered then I will want to hear

but will not gain from harshness in your tone.

Such words once thrown will travel like a spear

We've both before said words we can't disown.

You'll want to make sure that your meaning's clear;

an err unsaid leaves nothing to atone.

So hold those words for later; don't despair,

there's nothing risked delaying words that grate.

My love, use whispers closely late tonight.

I'll listen to your words- you know I'm fair.

So love, allow your anger to abate.

I love you dearly; I will make it right.

© Lawrencealot - June 21, 2013

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Melanesian Sonnet

Octet + Sestet
Generally Iambic Petameter
Volta at or following line 9
Rhyme scheme:  aabaaaba aababb
This is a form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines

JOSE wrote another which he intended to name Melanesian Wave which is only

different in presentation being three quatrains and a couplet.  It seems to me that

poets have always had the freedom to present their sonnets as the muse dictated they should.  I am not posting it therefore as a separate sonnet form.

Example Poem:

A Simple Flash!  (Melanesian Sonnet)


She thinks perhaps I dream of her at night
and miss her when she's somewhere out of sight.
She believes that some how I deserve respect
and am her thoughtful brave and charming knight.
She thinks it's fun to hike or fly a kite,
or read a poem and talk by candle light.
She speaks her mind, and shares her thoughts unchecked;
objections are not taken as a sleight.

Her figure's full, her teases do incite;
She thinks her cleavage flashed just might excite
and grins and smiles when I become erect,
my validation proving she was right.
She thinks she can have sex and my respect.
I know my lady surely is correct.



© Lawrencealot - October 30, 2012
This was written a parody of a Dalaney Poem




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Mabini Sonnet

Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 — May 13, 1903) was a Filipino political philosopher and revolutionary who wrote a constitutional plan for the First Philippine Republic, and served as its first prime minister until May 1899.

Quatorzain - Generally Iambic Pentameter

Volta at or following line 9

Octet + Sestet

Rhyme scheme: abbaccaa ddaeea

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

Example Poem:

All in the Family  (Mabini Sonnet)

I love you dearly, I will make things right.

Just hold that premise near your heart my dear

My callow acts are bound to disappear

as stumbling I learn; I am most contrite.

Yet certainly we can't avoid sorrow

by tracing footsteps into tomorrow.

Ignoring your dad's not too subtle sleight

will quell the arguments which such incite.

He calls me Ivory 'cus I'm not black

and Avery's my name; so cut him slack.

My dad thought interracial was alright.

Your dad will too when our first child is born.

The fringe of bigotry will then be shorn.

It happens.  Then the Grandpa's see the light.

© Lawrencealot - October, 24,2012

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Germanic Sonnet

Germanic Sonnet
Generally Iambic Petameter
Volta at or following line 9
Octet + Sestet
Rhyme scheme: abbabccb cddcdd

This is a presentation invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines, however the Germanic Sonnet, I found after posting this has been around for hundreds of years and is not new. Volta is typically at line 9, but could be at line 12, too.

The traditional Germanic Sonnet has a rhyme scheme of:

.. a. b. b. a. . . b. c. c. b. . . c. d. d. . . c. d. d.
I do not believe presenting the tercets as a sestet should qualify this as a new form.

Example Poem:

Straight Talk Volta (Germanic Sonnet)

Didactic poems can be used to teach.
An autologic poem may espouse
itself, defining what its form allows.
And either type can be set forth to preach.
They usually show the wheres and hows.
A sonnets heart, (the volta or the turn)
is not a trick that manual writers learn.
So what's a poet faced with to arouse?

Well, stop and tell the whys that you discern
once you've instructed well.  A twist is made,
the sonnet sighs, stands tall, and you've not strayed
from form.  You may if need 'ere you adjourn
return to central theme, a point delayed,
for emphasis; and beautifully displayed.

© Lawrencealot, Oct. 17, 2012


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Four Kings Sonnet

Rhyme Scheme:  abbaabba abbaab
Invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines
Iambic Pentameter
Volta Line 9 or beyond

Example Poem:


Four  Epoch Sonneteer  (Four Epoch Sonnet)

In school in fifty-seven I learned rhyme;
and forced exposure taught me sonnets ruled.
That all had fourteen lines; so I was schooled.
and Shakespeare was the master for all time.
Near three score years had passed be fore I tried
again to master bard's acknowledged sphere.
Then meter taunted me; I was defied
by multisyllabic words quite unclear.

At last, I grasped it, got the concept down.
I tried then linking sonnets together
with structure well defined, to tell a tale
worth telling.  I, at last. composed a crown.
A sonnet redouble'--now version five,
is ready; somehow I am still alive.

© Lawrencealot, October 17, 2012

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Envelope Sonnet

Type:
Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic, Pivot Requirement

Rhyme scheme:
abbacddc efgefg or
abbacddc efefef

Pivot: Between 8 and 9
Meter: In English  usually Iambic Pentameter.

Example Poem:



Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Envelope Sonnet)

Should you be moved to speak in anger, dear,
I ask that first you test your words alone.
If anger stems from blunder of my own
You'll want to be assured your meaning's clear.
If meaning's very clear, then is it fair?
Is it essential now that blame be found;
will such proceed toward a common ground?
Are these first words intended to repair?

Perhaps, the words should simply disappear
for now, until your anger can abate.
Let's lie together in our bed tonight
If I have stumbled I'll get straight, don't fear.
I'll listen, think, and I'll appreciate.
Speak whispers to me love, I'll make it right.



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Dutch Sonnet

Dutch Sonnet
This poetry form was presented by Dutch poet Leny Roovers. It is a unique form in that almost follows the Italian 8/6 pattern, but makes a statement with a sestet, and then pauses for thought with a couplet, and then like the Italian finishes with another sestet statement but of a much different tempo. Here is the pattern;

Rhyme Pattern: ababaacc dedfgf

Example Poem:


Tell Me of Your Anger in Whispers (Dutch  Sonnet)

A silence is most  fine  thing  when irate.
Emotions can  cause  phrases to  excite.
It's wise  of  you  my dear, therefore to wait,
we want  to  solve  a  problem,  not to fight.
For now, until your anger can abate,
avoid harsh words almost assured to  grate.
Yourr calm  approaches help make troubles  slight.
If  I  have  blundered  then  I'll  be  contrite.
So hold those words for later; don't despair
A resolution we will find that works.
I'll listen to your words- you know I'm fair.
Now  here's  the perfect  way to  do  this  right.
I'm your husband, and want to work with you
my love, use whispers closely late tonight.

© Larry Eberhart, aka Lawrencealot,  Oct. 11, 2012



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