A Dose of Encouragement!

Alluring,

Magnificent,

Enchanting

Accomplishment.

Aspire,

Aim,

Desire

Fame!

Decrease

Dreaming

Daily,

Increase

Working

Tirelessly. 

▪WHAT IS A WORD SONNET?▪

Technically this invented form would not qualify as a true sonnet because it is simply 1 word per line, no meter, no pivot. But it does employ three distinct features of the sonnet. It is 14 lines long, rooted in reflective or contemplative meditation and initially was rhymed using either the Shakespearean or Italian Sonnet rhyme schemes. The history of the form is an example of how poetic form evolves. From its roots of single monosyllabic, rhymed words using the Shakespearean Sonnet rhyme scheme in America, and around the same time using the Italian Sonnet rhyme scheme in France, to eliminating rhyme all together and finally evolving to triple and quintuple words with no stanzaic groupings and whatever other variations poets could dream of in-between.

According to an article, Forplay: by Seymour Mayne and Christal Steck, the Word Sonnet employing the rhyme scheme was first introduced by an American poet Brad Leithauser in 1985, Post-Coitum Tristesse and later included in his anthology of poetry, Rebel Angels. Around the same time as the anthology published in the US, French poet, René Nelli, published his own "Word Sonnets" in Sonnets Monosyllabiques using the rhyme scheme.

The elements of the Word Sonnet are:

1.lyrical, inspired by reflective or contemplative meditation.

2. a poem in 14 lines. 

3.  single word lines, initially, monosyllabic words were used but the syllable count is at the discretion of the poet. 

4. initially rhymed, either abba cddc effe gg or ababcdcd efgefg. More often now, unrhymed.

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