Poetry Forms : Chandlerian

Saturday, November 23, 2013

This form was invented in 2005 by B_Chandler on AP.

I found it on PoetryMagnusOpus listed as "Chandler's Sonnet, with the caveat that it

The Chandler Sonnet is an invented verse form introduced by B Chandler that although it is called a sonnet, has nothing in common with thesonnet form.
The Chandler Sonnet is:

a poem in 22 lines, written in 3 quatrains, an octave and a couplet in that order.
syllabic, the first 3 quatrains are dodecasyllabic, the quatrain is hendecasyllabic and the couplet is heptasyllabic lines.
rhymed, turned on only 4 rhymes, abab baba abab cdccdcdd ee.

My thanks to Judi Van Gorder of PMO, one of the hardest working site administrators on the web. A wonderful resource.

I have chosen to give the form the Original name the creator applied, even though in her

description she called it "The Chandler Sonnet".. I am already catching enough flax for finding so many non-complying sonnet forms.

Example Poem

Instinct (Chandelarian)

Instinctively the spider knows he has to build.

A DNA encoded knowledge, never taught

enables his performance, diligent and skilled.

His mommy never taught him though you think she ought.

To teach this task in college would require a lot,

and grant you membership in an especial guild.

Geometry and Physics, rules of Mandelbrot,

and Chemistry and math would be the skills they sought.

Our spider weaves his web without a second thought,

then finds it rendered useless by the moist air chilled

by nature's nocturnal show's ever changing plot.

The web will dry and work, or else he will rebuild.

Discontent with other's actions can occur

in daily functions even when we're trying

to co-operate- attempting to defer,

and misspoken words are taken as a slur.

This happens even when you are complying

and we don't always comply, that is for sure.

If mates can touch the care that's underlying

as by instinct they'll find their love undying.

My wife's patient as a saint

that's so, even though I ain't.

Visual Template

This template uses beginning Anapest for "c" rhymes

poet may choose any meter for either rhyme