Sonnet Primer A sonnet can be many things, but first —
at least what's usual — we start with
duh. That may sound strange, but with it comes a thirst
for
DUMs to follow,,, soon they'll call you
'Suh'.
Iambic, see, is what
duh-DUM is called;
pentameter is saying it five times.
You place such lines together till you've hauled
fourteen of them into one piece… with rhymes,
most oft in three quatrains, a couplet too.
But other ways to write them are around,
so never let your head get in a stew.
You'll read of variations; they abound.
An
English sonnet looks a bit like this;
grasp this form first, and you'll not go amiss.
© MLee Dickens'son 03 May 2007