Forms of Poetry (week two):

Sonnets! Traditionally a poem of 14 lines, linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.

Italian
broken into one octave and a sestet;
rhyme scheme abba/abba/cdecde

versus

English
broken into quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet;
rhyme scheme abab/cdcd/efef/gg

studied:
"Sonnet 60" (Shakespeare)
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (Keats)
"Yet Do I Marvel" (Cullen)
"The Forge" (Heaney)

~~J