Princess Sonnet

This form was invented by Allan R. Emery, aka Joe King on Allpoetry.

"The same as any Sonnet form as far as syllable count and end rhymes. The difference is that the rhyme is reversed for the first syllable (or syllables) of each line. For example: An English sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg so in an English Princess Sonnet the beginning rhyme would be reversed: baba dcdc fefe gg (or hh, as you can use a new beginning rhyme for the couplet if you wish) where the couplet would begin and end with a rhyming syllable (or multiple syllables if you can pull it off). An Italian sonnet would have an end rhyme of: abba abba cdecde, which would mean the start rhyme for an Italian Princess Sonnet would be baab baab edcedc (or baab baab efcefc). This will give the sonnet a cascading quality when read aloud. Often a rhyme will repeat as it ends one line and begins the next. Other times the two end rhymes of a quatrain will be next to one another as well, with one ending one line and the other beginning the next. Done with forethought, it will not be apparent that the sonnet is any different except to a very disciplined eye or ear. Yet, the rhythm and intonation that doubling the number of rhymes in a sonnet creates unquestionably makes the sonnet more like a song. With this, An English Sonnet with a beginning rhyme is an English Princess Sonnet. An Italian Sonnet with a beginning rhyme becomes and Italian Princess Sonnet. Etc. If you wish, you can have the same rhyme begin and end each line, which would be a Mirrored English Princess Sonnet, etc."

***** Notice that you can use 2, 3, or 4 syllable rhymes if you can pull them off. However, the most interesting would be the first syllable of the start rhyme and the last syllable of the end rhyme, hence: 'Mental' as a first rhyme would rhyme with 'detriment' as an end rhyme.**** 

Visual Template for English Version of Princess Sonnet,

with both front-rhyme options shown.

Visual Template for Italian version of Princess Sonnet

Reasonnet

*Reasonnet                                

A sonnet form invented by Ruth Poteet aka Reason on Allpoetry  

A variation on a variattion of a Keats Sonnet.

10 syllables                             

Four tercets plus a couplet                                

Rhymed: aaa bbb ccc ddd ee

Example Poem

Social Engineering     (Reasonnet)

Now every day you make me break the ice.

I wouldn't mind if you'd just ask me nice.

Instead you merely yak and give ad vice.

"Who made me your undocumented fool,

and set me up as your ice-breaking tool?"

I just decided to revoke that rule.

Of course we want to search for our next meal

yet all my stomping may attract a seal.

you say, "So what? That's not a biggy deal."

This method causes quickly, a commotion.

I backslap you with one nice friendly motion

and voila! there's our entry to the ocean.

I found my solution to be quite neat.

It's quicker than my using my two feet.

© Lawrencealot - June 1, 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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PGMA Sonnet

The PGMA Sonnet was invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes

on January 28, 2009 name 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.

Noted: 12/23/12

rhyming pattern: abba abba cddc dd

Example Sonnet

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

Paulo Comitatu Sonnet

Paulo Comitatu means  "Little Train" in Latin.

This Sonnet was created by Lawrencelot, using the Paulo Comitatu poetry form designed by Allan R. Emery, aka Joe King on Allpoetry.

I think all credit for the form should go to him, after all I simply added a heroic couplet to his already existing work and expanded the metric options.

Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines,  has identified sonnets of the head, the heart, and the hand.

I believe Joe King has a reverence for the traditional sonnets of the head and heart, and therefore would not himself (I suspect) compose a "gadget" sonnet-  (those which Jose refers to as sonnets of the hand.)

I have no such reservation.  Here is a form that will lend itself well to levity, capriciousness, and mirth, simply because mono-rhyme plays to that arena, as does the late volta.

This sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains, the first line of each being iambic  pentameter or tetrameter, and  the next three being one foot less (tetrameter or trimeter).

The closing couplet is Iambic pentameter.

Rhyme scheme: abbb accc deee dd

Visual Template (Pentameter Option)