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NaPoWriMo Day 4: Formal Friday

4/4/2014

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You may have heard of heard of "Casual Friday" before. Casual Friday is for suckers! We prefer to celebrate the ending of the workweek with Formal Friday.

The Sonnet

The sonnet is a widely popular poetic form with which most poets are at least remotely familiar. There are many different types of sonnets as the style has evolved since its early days.

F0r the longest time, a sonnet was expected to conform to a specific rhyme scheme and meter. The most common type of sonnet among poets writing in English is the Elizabethan sonnet or Shakespearean sonnet.

The Shakespearean sonnet is comprised of three quatrains and an ending couplet. It is written on Iambic Pentameter and follows rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b -c-d-c-d- e-f-e-f- g-g.

Many contemporary poets have written sonnets in blank verse.

An example of a Shakespearean sonnet.

The Sestina

The sestina is a poetic form that makes heavy use of repetition. It contains six stanzas of six lines and is concluded with a final three-line stanza. The words that end each line of the first stanza also end each line of each subsequent stanza, though their order is rotated each time.

An example of a sestina.

The Villanelle

The Villanelle contains five tercets, or three-line stanzas followed by a quatrain. The villanelle contains two refrains and two different rhymes.

An example of a villanelle.

The Prompt: Formal Follies

Write a Villanelle, Sestina, or Sonnet using highly formal language. Write said piece about a whimsical or even absurd topic.
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