Demi-sonnet
A demi-sonnet is a poetic form. Demi-sonnets include seven lines of varying length and tend to be aphoristic in nature. Each poem ends with an internal full or slant rhyme. The form was invented in 2009 by American poet Erin Murphy whose fourth book of poetry, Word Problems, is a collection of demi-sonnets.
Etymology
The name comes from the fact that the form is half the length of a traditional 14-line sonnet.
gollark: I know of no sentient pizzas.
gollark: I have been meaning to repurpose a spare very outdated tablet as a wall-mounted information display of some sort but never found much to put on it. Perhaps that would be "useful".
gollark: By my rough count, it's only about 300 nanoideologies per person.
gollark: I mean, obviously.
gollark: I guess you'd want to reweight slightly so that you don't pick everything from Marxism (because it has a ton of variants).
External links
- Word Problems by Erin Murphy
- Demi-sonnet in Best of the Net anthology: http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/2009/murphye.htm
- 4 demi-sonnets in the Spring 2010 issue of Scythe Literary Journal: http://scytheliteraryjournal.com/
- 3 demi-sonnets in Kestrel (under Erin Murphy) http://www.fairmontstate.edu/kestrel/issue-24-spring-2010
- Demi-sonnet in Tattoo Highway
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