…is sonnet IV of the Shakespeare reflected variety. As usual, it is a reverse Spenserian. Internal rhymes are all couplets (also as per usual) however this time, I used all of Shakespeare’s rhyming words for these. I use these in the order in which they appear, excepting that they are rearranged to couplet form. Mechanically this worked better than expected; however I feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing on end, as no doubt, Lucas is “gunning” for this one.
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Never fear, I have not…
…disappeared. I shall be resuming after a much needed respite. I have, as some here know, been ill; although not seriously, still lingeringly! Still it seemed an appropriate reward for my sixth month mark having been achieved–actually taking time to recover without undue stress on my body or mind.
I plan to resume tomorrow–or later this afternoon–with a new sequence. This is the proposed “gateway to sonnet form,” or one might term it “gateway drug to sonnet form.” I myself have so termed it . My plan is to start with freeverse constrained only by being limited to fourteen lines and proceed from there, toward blank verse, and then lyrical couplets and onward from there.
I have not yet decided if it will be one piece continually evolving, or a series of pieces either related in subject, or progressing in a particular direction. We shall see….
Blessed Silence…
If one finds one cannot endure the lure of the “little orange thingy” which informs one of new “likes/comments/follows,” &c, then the following solution should be undertaken:
- Log out of your account
- Create another user i.e. “davidemeronII”
- Set its primary blog to Private
- change the user’s display name to something like “REMOVE THIS NOW”
- Log out of this account and log back into your “real” account
- From each blog you use, invite your user (i.e. “davidemeronII”) to be an EDITOR.
- Log out and log back into your new account
- Check the email for the new account and accept all invitations you sent.
- Now, you can edit drafts already posted and nothing will change
- It is best to put the Author widget toward the top of the “Add New Post” page.
- Because it will default to user “REMOVE THIS NOW”
- Never post as this user
- Never comment as this user
- If you do, edit the comments or posts to reflect your normal username i.e. “David Emeron”
- You will never receive any notifications while logged in this way.
- You can answer comments on this account, without affecting this
- IF you always remember to change the user when you are posting.
- SO IT IS BEST NOT TO DO THIS.
- When you are ready for the cacauphany of comments, likes, follows, &c, just:
- LOG OUT, and log back into your regular user account, and do whatever you wish.
(This post was published in this manner, my “little grey thingy” never changed into a “little orange thingy.”)
This is much better, and is far less nerdy, than using script blocking techniques. I would much prefer that wordpress allow you to turn all notification OFF, but, until they do, this works perfectly.
Sonnet II | Lyrical Love
I never know when she will come or go, but when she appears, there is always such beauty:
Come with me, into the chilled winter mist…
Our hearts breathe, under silent, navy sky,
Frosting moonlight with every passioned sigh.
Let us wander in an evergreen whist,
Where the seduction of heat will insist…
That we create a burn hot as July.
As closer we draw, the stars can’t deny,
Brighter we burn if we torridly kissed.
You reached my soul with your caress of word.
You left me shaken and trembling and weak,
You wrapped me in a haze of devotion
I breathed your love in, not able to speak.
The silence more piercing than what is heard,
I awoke…entwined in silk emotion.
Sonnets in Lyrical couplets–the gateway drug… Possibly?
Having recently discovered a sonnet in lyrical couplets by Kipling, [“When Fear Came,” I believe it is titled, in the 2nd “Jungle Book”] and having written one myself, albeit as a character rather than as myself, I was put in mind of the above possibility. As such I would like to write a few more couplet sonnets. But also….
I feel perhaps, I might write a series of sonnet like forms ranging from completely freeverse to completely structured. I feel that in such a way one might bring someone along a bit toward realising that sonnets are not so very hard to understand.
Of course, even if they were, one may still have the experience of hearing one read aloud; for the sound itself, is quite beautiful even without full comprehension. Still, sonnet form is relatively simple; and even if classical topical structure is maintained (e.g. a sonnet reading essentially: “Consider this… But wait, what about this?” this turn or ‘volta’ most often occurring at the ninth line but often delayed till the very last; and sometimes, though rarely, earlier than that) quite easy to understand.
I feel this sequence I describe in the second paragraph is a bit of “cheating” perhaps, because the first few examples would be quite easy to write; however, I have been wondering in what way I might reward myself for having passed my sixth month mark, and perhaps this might be fitting. I cannot, for example, think of any further paid services at this time in which I would desire to engage; therefore, I am reduced to content related rewards, I fear!
It is possible, I suppose, that the following are related articles:
- A Terza Rima Sonnet and Challenge: Promise Me (readinpleasure.wordpress.com)
- Want to Write a Sonnet? (editingaddict.com)
- Sonnet (rodriguezerika15.wordpress.com)
- My Attempt At Writing A Sonnet – A Summary (gaelanhamilton.wordpress.com)
- Sonnets (roseanna2126.wordpress.com)
- Sonnet (rosamariayanez.wordpress.com)
- Sonnet (erniehuerta.wordpress.com)
- In a few days will repost a sequence… (davidemeron.com)
Libertarian Shakespeare « Poetry « The ObjectOpus
This appears to be #7 in a sequence; or at the very least, a series of some kind.
Plutarch, of liberal instance, coming forth
In prose, historically reconciled
With fate, persuaded Shakespeare that more worth
Brief freedom has alive and undefiled
Than longevous disgrace enslaved. One must
Consider in accord with courage what
To do, by daily judgment deeming just
Those deeds that quicken liberty. So thought
The poet when Marcus Brutus he perused,
Not from the manly tenor of that book
Withdrawing. Civic wisdom was infused
Into his spine, which would not lightly crook
Upon consensus. Forcibly erect,
No slavish bent he’d suffer in defect.
Reverse Petrarchan/Reverse Italian Sonnets:
In the sequence Regarding the Male form, You will see an atypical rhymescheme in Sonnet #3, this is what may be termed a “Reverse Italian,” or “Reverse Petrarchan,” if you prefer the more formal name.
Also in this sequence, the piece directly preceding this one is a more direct companion. Sonnet #2 in the sequence is a conventional Italian or Petrarchan.
I enjoy reversing forms in order that I might see how they work, sound, feel, etc. A Petrarchan is difficult to reverse, because in the first section you have
ABBA, ABBA,
which when reversed gives one BAAB, BAAB, which is identical in sound. So I can see the best possibility here might be to reverse one quatrain which gives:
ABBA, BAAB, which does have a unique sound.
Also the second section of a Petrarchan–the final six lines–are never set to one form so they may be
CDECDE, or CDCDCD, or CDECED, or even occasionally, CDCDEE,
which is something of a rarely; but even Petrarch did it that way once. You will see any number of possibilities in the final six lines. Except you will never (that I know of) see something like:
CCDEDE, which a reverse of CDCDEE,
So that seems a logical target for a Reverse Petrarchan.
All this together gives
ABBA BAAB CCDEDE,
One could perhaps try CCDEED, or possibly a third use of C, but the couplet really must, I think, be in lines 9 and 10.
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