List: Sonnet



A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme:

Examples of a rhyming scheme:

#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd

A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.

An Italian sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet, rhyming
cdecde or cdcdcd, or in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet.

Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line, but Italian Sonnets can also have
11 syllables per line.

French

  • Spring's Tomorrow
    In darker skies I watch southward bound fowl making elongated V forms in the sky.
    28 lines, on May 3 5:47 PM
  • Spring's Tomorrow
    In darker skies I watch southward bound fowl making elongated V forms in the sky.
    28 lines, on May 3 5:47 PM
  • If I Were to Touch Your Skin
    What would happen if I were to touch your skin letting your sensation brush up against mine?
    23 lines, 1 comment, on May 3 10:39 PM
  • Your Sweet Kiss
    Why must I go a day without you sweet kiss or the feel of my skin against your skin?
    27 lines, on May 9 1:48 PM
  • A Whirl Wind
    22 lines, 1 comment, on May 9 2:40 PM. In Erotica
  • Come What May
    No matter what we are walking to the end and it has been this way since the beginning.
    17 lines, 4 comments, on May 10 2:32 AM
  • In Deepest Parts of the Night
    I think about you in deepest parts of the night. I admit you have been the main part of my dreams.
    16 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 4 5:14 PM
  • THE DEEPER WOUND itailain sonnet
    The deeper wound gives loudest silence. Aspersions cast as demons play their game.
    36 lines, 1 day ago

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