Can be played to a tattoo march in 4/4 time.  Prum pum pum pum pum…..   Prum pum pum pum pum…..  Prum pum pum pum pum…..  More analysis and permutations to follow in a few hours…okay well, it’s been a day. (not in a coma, but close)

I couldn’t quite keep the sonnet or haiku formatting without making the rhythmic presentation confusing, therefore I have just inserted both entries into a table.

First the sonnet:

Perhaps the final couplet could be used as a cadence/chorus.

And here is the haiku in similar format:

This project brings to light another relationship between sonnets and haiku.  Two haiku can be plucked out of each couplet of a sonnet, and/or two haiku can stand in for each couplet of a sonnet padded by syllables on either side.  A couplet is 20 syllables and a haiku is 17.  It would be an interesting project to compose a sonnet. out of seven haiku, using that idea, and compose a sequence of 7 haiku from a sonnet.

Perhaps there will be a couple of sonnets and a haiku in the days to come using that method.  It sounds Like it would be fun.

I’ve recently thought that one could write a sonnet in blank verse (non-rhyming iambic pentameter) and then arrange the rhymes afterward.  That, too, would be an interesting project.  I think I’m going to do both of these, or rather, all three of these, in the near future.