Poetry Forms : Sonnetina Rispetto

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The "Sonnetina Rispetto" is a new poetry form

created by Dorian Petersen Potter

on September 8,2009.

This form has 14 lines with 8 syllables each.

It can be written in 3 quatrain stanzas and a couplet or

with an Octave(8) and a Sestet(6) lines.

The rhyme scheme is as follows: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.

The capitals A1,A2,B1 and B2...stands for the refrain lines in the poem.

Specifications restated:

Stanzaic: Either 4 quatrains and a couplet or a sestet and an octaveI

Isosyllabic: Eight syllable per line

Repetitive: requires two refrain lines, each repeated twice.

Rhyme pattern: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.

My example poem

My Reservoir Is Now Pints Shy (Sonnetia Rispetto)

A challenge once was put to me

to drink six beers and not to pee.

When young I won that careless bet

Six bottles I would quickly scarf,

then merely belch and never barf,

but how I did it I forget.

A challenge once was put to me

to drink six beers and not to pee.

My bladder then could wait and wait

and bow not to an old prostate.

When young I won that careless bet

but how I did it I forget.

A challenge once was put to me

to drink six beers and not to pee.

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