Demi-sonnet
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A demi-sonnet is a poetic form. Demi-sonnets include seven lines of varying length and tend to be aphoristic in nature. Each poem ends with an internal full or slant rhyme.
Etymology[edit]
The name comes from the fact that the form is half the length of a traditional 14-line sonnet.
References[edit]
Scythe Literary Journal Best of the Net Anthology Kestrel
External links[edit]
- Word Problems by Erin Murphy
- Demi-sonnet in Best of the Net anthology: http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/2009/murphye.htm
- 4 demi-sonnets in the Spring 2010 issue of Scythe Literary Journal: http://scytheliteraryjournal.com/
- 3 demi-sonnets in Kestrel (under Erin Murphy) http://www.fairmontstate.edu/kestrel/issue-24-spring-2010
- Demi-sonnet in Tattoo Highway
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