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Sonnet (Sonnet) by zodiac

Off-work Sundays we walked to tide pools, shoppers at a bazaar: here sea glass, here miss, here the urchin, here a clavicle of deadwood scrubbed white, bull’s-eye seastar, here black hobnailed rocks. The ocean turning pat, obsequious, eager to make the sale, held out a short arms-length of argyle, lace, some silk handwork I was sure turning over would show newsprint, whirled stains, some fakery. We walked, bored sunstruck tourists, full as moons, until the tide all in a tantrum klar-ed its buoy-bells, counted, recounted, charged the market, curled back, counted and again swept up, to end things. We welcomed it in.

zodiac 6-Feb-06/2:50 PM
There are several typical rhyme-schemes for sonnets, including Shakespearean, Petrarchan and so on. None of them are given much thought these days. The outstanding feature of a sonnet is that it has 14 lines. Most sonnets, almost all of them, in fact, are written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables, bu-BUMP bu-BUMP bu-BUMP bu-BUMP bu-BUMP.) But even that sees a lot of variation nowadays. American poet Nikki Giovanni made a big splash writing "broken sonnets", for example, which used several rhythms and line-lengths. It's not even, as far as I know, currently expected by most people that sonnets rhyme. This one does, of course:

ABABCDdEdFGgFF




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