Tuckerman’s Sonnet Notes

Structure: Octet and sestetMeter: Pentameter or DecasyllabicRhyme Scheme: abbabcab adeced Example Resurrection by Jez Farmer The rain is crying outside the steel gates;Inside there is no loving forgivenessAs evil dines on our righteous progressWe’re naught but pawns as love disintegrates.The father sky sheds tears of pure duressHis naked bride is torn of all but prideAs …

Triolet Sonnet Notes

Structure: Four triplets and a coupletMeter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic linesRhyme Scheme: ABaAab ABaAab AB Example In Scrying Pools by Jez Farmer Silently sat beneath moonlightthe air is sweet with jasmine's scentI look into the waters of night.Silently sat beneath moonlightand there I see you in my sightmy lady hears my heart's lamentSilently sat beneath moonlightthe …

Philippine Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. Reyes Philippine Sonnet 1Structure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: aaaa bbbb aaaa cc Example Whisper to the Trees by Jez Farmer The late autumn sun kissed the forest floorAnd glistened between fallen leaves and sporeThe vibrant colours of woodland décorPerfect beauty no man could ask for …

Tennyson’s Sonnet Notes

Structure: Octet and sestetMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: A1bA2bcddc efeA2A1f Queen of Night by Jez Farmer Despite the worst of me, I feel her loveA gentle kiss that stole my lonely tearsTo ease my mind from storms that rage aboveThe night; yet still her hand calmed all my fearsOh sweet the love that brings me …

Spenserian Sonnet Notes

Named for Edmund SpenserStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Pentameter or DecasyllabicRhyme Scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee Example Cherry Blossom by Jez Farmer I see your face before my waiting eyesHow does my pen such beauty thus convey?The cherry blossom floating in blue skiesOutdone, as smiles upon your lips now playThe summer sun is not …

Paulo Comitatu Sonnet Notes

Created by: Larry EberhartStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: See additional notesRhyme Scheme: abbb accc deee ddAdditional Notes: This sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains, the first line of each being iambic pentameter or tetrameter, and the next three being one foot less (tetrameter or trimeter). Example Lunchtime Blues by Jez Farmer In the queue …

Sonetto Rispetto Notes

Structure: Octet and sestetMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abababcc defdef Example And All Because by Jez Farmer The sweetest velvet in a tempting kissThat coyly hides behind a crispy shellYet it beckons one’s heart beat to missFor delight entices desire to swellCan a friendship lead to better than this?Is a single truffle enough to tellWhat …

Soneto Cinco Cuatro y Cinco Notes

Structure: Quintain, quatrain and quintainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abbaa ccdd eeffe Example The Poet's Song (in tetrameter) by Jez Farmer A distant echo over timeThe single voice that none could hearThe whisper silenced by my fearA voice which called me out in rhymeAs ink revealed the hidden crime.Two voices that should speak as oneYet …

Shelley’s Sonnet

Percy Bysshe Shelly seemed to have a fondness for interlocking stanzas, possibly a nod to French literature. In his sonnet, he follows the continental octave and sestet format, but he also links the first four lines into the second half of the octave, again the second half of the octave links into the first half …

It Goes So Fast

A gentle sun rises in early spring To bid farewell to the cold winter days And the garden shines in daffodil haze Where bluebells will glow and the songbirds sing...

Schupan’s Sonnet Notes

Structure: Two sestets and a coupletMeter: Pentameter or DecasyllabicRhyme Scheme: abccba deffed gg Example Silver Willow by Jez Farmer The willow leaves take on a silver glowAs lunar light foretells of love tonightThat speaks without uttering worldly soundAnd leaves the senses rippling to the groundIn lucent passions the soul makes its flightBeneath the boughs of …

Nevada Sonnet Notes

Structure: QuatorzainMeter: heptameter or 14-syllable linesRhyme scheme: Any or blank verseAdditional Notes: Consistent internal rhyme occurring at the same syllable in each line Example Turning the Page by Jez Farmer Wanton desire to find my pleasure in the comfy nookInhaling fiery delights hidden in the mysteryTo then aspire to the intimate touch of true romanceHeld …

Sapphic Ode Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jeff GreenStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic lines (see additional notes)Rhyme Scheme: abab cdcd efef ggAdditional Notes: Example French Cologne by Jez Farmer As tears replaced the kiss of loveWith long nights of sleeping aloneThat grasp the lingering scent ofA French cologne.The study books can’t hold my mindMy heart is …

Rubaiyat Sonnet Notes

Structure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: aaba bbcb ccdc aa Example A Blessing by Jez Farmer From out of darkness Mother, we call thee!In stormy winds, reveal thy destinyAmid the holy fire and cleansing flameRelease a crying soul and set it free.With pow’rs of seas we pray our ways reclaimFor we …

Rondel Prime Sonnet Notes

Created by: Clemont MarotStructure: Octave and sestetMeter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic linesRhyme Scheme: ABbaabAB abbaAB Example A Devon Lass by Jez Farmer A Devon lass was Mary Read,Raised as a lad the pirate queen,All for her mother's wish to succeed,To the world a boy was she seen,Elizabethan trews were her screen,So male in dress, in thought …

Mystique’s Mini Sonnet Notes

Created by: Alberto J. Alvarez GStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: 6/6/7/7 6/6/7/7 6/6/7/7 7/7Rhyme scheme: Aabb cccc Aacc dd Example Time Goes By by Jez Farmer Greying hair speaks of timeYears gone by in their primeYet eyes sparkle with mischiefRevealing inner beliefThe memories remainIn happiness and painOf sunny days before rainReliving it all againGreying …

Raven’s Rovi Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jez FarmerStructure: Two septetsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abacdcd (abcde)ee The Rovi Sonnet was inspired by Ivor Hogg’s Ivorian sonnet form. As I like balance I have divided the sonnet into two septets the first being formed of a triplet and a quatrain, the second a quintain and a couplet. As Ivor set …

Morya’s Double Lock Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Two quatrains plus two tercetsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: abba baab cdc dcd Example Truth of Darkness by Jez Farmer There is no beginning without an endA flower can’t bloom unless winter diesAnd the seed awakens from dreamy sighsAnd tendrils of life through the cold earth wendFor deep in …

Mirrored Seven Sonnet Notes

Mirrored Seven Sonnet NotesCreated by: John ThompsonStructure: Quatrain, sestet and quatrainMeter: 7 syllables per lineRhyme scheme: abab cdeedc baba Example Venice by Jez Farmer Echoes of love reflect in stillnessWhere else but here, this place of art and loveAnd memories still dance in their shrillnessAs lilies float by holding my dreams ofYou and I, and …

Pushkin’s Sonnet Notes

Pushkin's Sonnet NotesCreated by: Alexander PushkinStructure: Two quatrains and a sestetMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abab ccdd effegg Example Hedonistic Psyche by Jez Farmer Take hold my hand and let me lead the wayAnd whisper in my ear of all you desireAs if my kiss can tell you what to sayWhen lips linger longer to …

Pope John XXXIII Sonnet Notes

Structure: aaaa bbbb cc ddddMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: Two quatrains, a couplet, and a quatrain Example Beloved by Jez Farmer The love you gave me like golden sunshine;You kept me safe and taught me ways divine,My rock when only darkness felt like mineI pray my hand is still held within thine.Those days, beloved, when …

Polynesian Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: aaxa bbxb ccxc dd Example Divine Horses by Jez Farmer Where wild horses thunder she can be foundBestowing to our kings the royal ground,Their oath as solemn as any marriage vowIn ancient rites by which they are still bound.If flowing …

Persepolis Sonnet Notes

Created by: Leny RooversStructure: Octave and sestetMeter: Octave 11 syllable lines, Sestet decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: aabbccdd efgefg Example Taking Chances by Jez Farmer A doorway to where, a mystery to goA ready-made adventure and who’s to knowWhat lies just beyond this, an unopened doorI don’t know as I haven’t been there beforeYet anticipation tingles …

Hyper Sonnet Notes

Created by: Marnie KanarekStructure: Four triplets and a coupletMeter: varied meterRhyme scheme: axa axa xaa xaa aaExtra Notes: A chain of four tercets wherethe first line is iambic pentameter,second line is iambic tetrameter,and third line is iambic trimeter,and ending with an iambic pentameter couplet Example It’s Our Fault by Jez Farmer Only the ancient ones …

Passion Sonnet Notes

Created by: Victoria SuttonStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Pentameter or DecasyllabicRhyme Scheme: a1ba2B bcBc Bdbd a1a2 Example Pure Love by Jez Farmer This moment of love so long waited forWhen all the pain and fear melt into timeA moment when life is simple and pureThe world is silent for his sound to chimeA baby’s …

Pantoum Sonnet Notes

Created by: Terry ClitheroeStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Tetrameter or octosyllabic linesRhyme Scheme: A1B1A2B2 B1C1B2C2 C1dC2d A2A1 Example Tears of Rain by Jez Farmer My heart encased in carapaceNo longer can love cause me painMy eyes are blind to all that laceWhilst tears are only caused by rain.No longer can love cause me painAs …

Nightingale Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jez FarmerStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Nine syllable linesRhyme Scheme: axxb axcb xcxb ac Example Oracle by Jez Farmer The quest for answers lost over timeInquiries made in realms of darknessWaiting for the voice of wisdom to speakAnd solve the mysteries of the heart.She sleeps through the years biding her timeDark lady …

Malayan Wave Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaba bbcb ccdc dd Example On Travel Sickness by Jez Farmer The night before brings those feelings of dreadNightmares started before I go to bedIn queasy visions involving the carThey swirl in dizzy thoughts around my headNo matter how near, …

New Zealand Sonnet Notes

Structure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: abab bbcc cdcd ee Example The White Stag by Jez Farmer Beside the dreamy streams he stands alone,The fires of lightning sparking in his eye,As the white stag comes to the sacred stoneThe Sun-god smiles wherever ravens fly,Like a mountain reaching for misty skyProudly stands …

Mathlish Sonnet Notes

Structure: Triplet, couplet, triplet, couplet and a quatrainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaa bb ccc dd abab Example I Know You Are There by Jez Farmer The calm before the storm, I feel the fearThat presence drawing closer, drawing nearWith silent footsteps that I cannot seeI feel its icy breath move against meAlone in darkness …

Cymraeg Soned Notes

Created by Jez Farmer, the Cymraeg Soned reflects traditional Welsh poetry with the quatrains written as awdl gwydd and the couplet as a cyhydedd fer Adwdl Gwydd Each stanza is a quatrain of seven syllables. Lines two and four rhyme and lines one and three cross rhyme into either syllable two, three, four or five …

Kal’s Wondercloth Weave Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abcb bcdc cded de Example Good Without God by Jez Farmer Does his soul still linger on the BeagleAnd does he still sail to far away islesWhere scientific truth spoke on a finch’s beakAs we look at religion with knowing smilesCreationism …

Mirrored 18-Line Sonnet Notes

Structure: Octet, couplet and octetMeter: decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: abbaabba cc abbaabba Example Ancient Drum by Jez Farmer Across the savannah echo ancient drumThe spirit of nature dancing on grassYet mankind comes invading en masseHe’s taking her beauty and still He comeAcross the plains where the dry grasses humWill this invader e’er run out of …

Miltonic Sonnet Notes

Created by: John MiltonStructure: QuatorzainMeter: decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: abbabbacdecde Example On His Blindness by John Milton When I consider how my light is spent,ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with the useless, though my soul more bentto serve therewith my Maker, and …

Melenesian Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M ReyesStructure: Octave and sestetMeter: Decasyllabic LinesRhyme scheme: aabaaaba aababb Example A Simple Flash! By Larry Eberhart She thinks perhaps I dream of her at nightand miss her when she’s somewhere out of sight.She believes that somehow I deserve respectand am her thoughtful brave and charming knight.She thinks it’s fun to …

Marshalline Sonnet Notes

Created by: Marie MarshallStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Nine syllable linesRhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg Example Gatherings by Jez Farmer A musical march matches the gownBefore promises of wedded blissConfetti falls like a gentle downOn the embrace love’s first bridal kiss.New life held in arms given a nameInnocence before the joy of lifeNo …

Lazy Day Sonnet Notes

Created by: Rebecca KerrStructure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aabbccdddeeeff Example Lazy Day Love by Jez Farmer A cautious heart treads the path of love slowWith doubts floating freely on the air flowAnd trust a distant hope far out of reachScepticism a rough and pebbled beachWithout the soft sand that so gently leadsThe soul away from …

Kiss Cross Sonnet Notes

Created by Jez Farmer. Kiss Cross Sonnet 1 Structure: 3 quatrains and a coupletMeter: Octosyllabic or tetrameterSchema: aabb ccdd eeff ggExtra parameter: Part of each first line of each quatrain is mirrored in the fourth line of each quatrain Example Loneliness In Love by Jez Farmer Loneliness appeared from nowhereMy heart lost, love a distant …

La Germania Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abba acca cddc dd Example Synchronicity by Jez Farmer Transcendental pleasure is ours to takeBeyond routine we seek our own desireAs our senses burn hot in passion’s fireNo loveless gratification to fakeIntense eyes darken as they feel desireExploring the wonder of …

Malayan Fireburst Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaba bbcb ccdc ddAdditional parameters: 3rd line in each quatrain must be feminine rhyme Example Remedial Action by Larry Eberhart Removed from urban crush his cabin sitsabove where finally the sagebrush quits.His land abuts a park that’s mostly forest.A stealthy …

Malayan Sonnet Notes

Structure: aaba bbcb ccdc ddMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: Three quatrains and a couplet Example Shamanic Rhythm by Jez Farmer Delicate feet dancing on the parched landWishful prayers summoned with opening handWith a soulful voice calling out for rainAs the summer burns the green grass to sand.Shamanic rite written in rhythmic strainCalling the divine to …

Luzvimninda’s Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cccc dd Example My Lady by Jez Farmer She wanders through the living to find oneTo journey on beyond the worldly sunThe one whose mortal time has had its runAnd we fear her hand in the shades of …

Malayan Sonnet (Caudated) Notes

Malayan Sonnet (Caudated) NotesStructure: Five QuatrainsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaba bbcb ccdc ddde eeff Example Clouds of Twilight by Jez Farmer The clouds of twilight reflect the sweet faceOf love; the smile that drives a heart with graceFor that smile is mine and it’s mine aloneAnd it reminds me of that sweet embrace.Dark passions …

Mabini Sonnet Notes

Mabini Sonnet Notes Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Two triplets, a couplet and two tripletsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: abb acc aa dda eea Example Sensual Musk by Jez Farmer The dancing daffodils are smiling hereThey spread the word of life in springtime’s lightWhile nature speaks of love within her sight.The rabbits chase across …

LuVailean Sonnet Notes

Created by: Lyra LuVaileStructure: QuatorzainMeter: 6 couplets of alternating pentameter and dimeter lines and ending with a heroic coupletRhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg Example Poor Health Costs by Larry Eberhart Most every life is filled with highs and lows;expect no less.But only when your health has been deposedis life a mess.The costs, unless you’re in the upper …

Lunatic Sonnet Notes

Structure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aaab bbcc cddd ee Example A Secret Bliss by Jez Farmer Inside our dreams resides a secret blissWhen pains of life are silenced in a kissWhat greater dream exists beyond all thisOn darksome nights beneath the sleeping stars?And while old men smoke their Cuban cigarsTo haunting …

Kyrielle Sonnet Notes

Kyrielle Sonnet 1 Structure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Octosyllabic or tetrameterSchema: AbaB cbcB dbdB AB Example La Cheminée by Jez Farmer In summer sun the grate lies coldNo embers left to warm the nightYet summer blooms beauty beholdAs floral scents bring out delightThe seasons turn in loving flowTo reach above in passion’s heightFor love’s …

Illini Sonnet Notes

Created by Nel ModglinStructure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic/Octsayllabic or pentameter/tetrameterSchema: abcabcdbcdecee.Additionally,L1,L4,L5,L8,L9 and L12 are tetrameter and L2,L3,L6,L7,L10,L11,L13 and L14 are pentameter. Example Bloody Admin by Jez Farmer The desk is lonely as dawn breaksAnd outside morning chorus how it singsIn the lazy rays of an early sunIn the kitchen coffee pot shakesIt’s that aroma of all thingsThat …

Kiwi Pause Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abbaccddeffegg Example Meter Matter by Lawrence Eberhart Constrained by form a sonnet forces rhymeAnd rhyme without some meter is bad verseLike Paul and Mary lacking Peter – worseDiscord will sometimes shout to me, ‘Watch out!’My deafness frequently obscures that shoutAnd bumps appear that other readers …

Korean Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Sestet and OctaveMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aaaaaa bbbbbbbb Example Azure Blue by Jez Farmer Cast the soul adrift upon the oceanAnd let it feel the waves of emotionAdrift but safe in a lover’s devotionWhere just one kiss can cause a commotionOr as calming as a soothing lotionFor each wave …