I said earlier that a sonnet has a fearsome number of rules.
This is the reason why so many great poems in the English tradition are sonnets.Īnd it’s also the key to how you can ease into writing them. There’s something about the sonnet “shape” that is extraordinarily helpful to writers in structuring and conveying their thoughts, and deeply satisfying to readers too. The Shape of the Sonnet-and how to use it your way And moreover, there’s a way of writing them that harnesses that power, and takes out all the pain of rhyme and iambic pentameter completely! Sonnets are so perennially popular because they connect form with ideas in ways that really, really work.
Partly, of course, it’s because the sonnet is famous, and some of the greatest poems in English are sonnets.īut there's more to it than that.
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