The Sonnet Sonnet
March 24, 2008 by
Instructions on How to Write a Sonnet in Sonnet Form
To make a sonnet begin with a theme.Write the first four lines, quatrain is the word.
Iambic pentameter is the scheme.
The first line written should rhyme with the third.
Second and fourth will be made to rhyme too.
Quatrains two and three will follow the same
Expand on the thesis, that's what to do,
until the third where a twist is your aim.
Then you should turn the sonnet on its end
Peripeteia, a critical twist
before the last rhyming couplet is penned,
that summarizes and concludes the list.
With these tools you can now write a sonnet.
So sharpen your pencils and get on it!
I was thinking about the scheme to sonnets and referred to a sonnet "cheat sheet" I wrote for myself long ago. It looks something like this:
rhymes
a
b - exposition of the main theme or metaphor
a
b
c
d - an extension of the main theme, sometimes an example
c
d
e - the peripeteia
f
e
f
g - the summarizing couplet
g
So I thought it might be fun to put the "rules" for writing a sonnet into a close approximation of sonnet form.
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