tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20454547.post7263614159866261651..comments2023-09-20T04:53:44.205-04:00Comments on Stanmore Hill: behold a mysteryFSJLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20454547.post-89786814910331694622008-08-13T17:21:00.000-04:002008-08-13T17:21:00.000-04:00Pam: You're right, it is the Italian (or Petrarcha...Pam: You're right, it is the Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet. I've also written Shakespearean sonnets; when I started writing sonnets a couple of years back, the first ones I wrote (if you want to go back that far in the blog archives, and read some awful verse) were Shakespearean).<BR/><BR/>I find the discipline of the strict verse form (though I break the pentameter from time to time) is useful for forcing me to say just what I have to say <I>and no more</I>. <BR/><BR/>I set them down as they come (I use an online rhyming dictionary to help produce the rhymes, but that's all). I'm glad you like the poems. <BR/><BR/>You have a good weekend too.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>FraganoFSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20454547.post-80410657827661435452008-08-13T12:21:00.000-04:002008-08-13T12:21:00.000-04:00Stopping by "behold a mystery", fsjl, in part beca...Stopping by "behold a mystery", fsjl, in part because I'm writing sonnets myself, at the minute, a whole book of them. I'm interested in your strict use of the Italian form (right?), in both rhyme scheme and metre. I call the ones I'm writing subversive, and so use run-on lines, observe the pentameter when it suits me – though I rarely disturb the iambs – and rhyme any which way, as the spirit moves. Are you ever irreverent with traditional forms? And, a more general question, do you post from an already written store of poems, or are you setting them down as they come? Thanks for the poems, and have a good weekend.clarabellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046264094193801260noreply@blogger.com