Ohio Poets - An Alfred Dorn Sonnet
The style and form of this type of sonnet was new to me until quite recently. The meter is iambic pentameter and the rime scheme is abcabc dd aeaeae with a volta coming after the couplet.This is my...
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Dear Mary,Excellent meter and the images are strong. Great Alfred Dorn Sonnet. The couplet, between two sestets, which distinguishes the Alfred Dorn sonnet from the others, along with the end rhyme...
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Interesting poem and form. Carly posted one two months ago Memoirs of an Old Road - An Alfred Dorn Sonnet 11 5/23/03. If you care to retrace its about part six at this point today. I keep saying I'll...
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Interesting. Who is this Alfred Dorn that he gets a Sonnet named after him?
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He actually won a sonnet contest and they named the style he used 'The Alfred Dorn'.I like the form myself. I think it was one of my first attempts - the old road thing was started about 5 years ago,...
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I was here blathering about the A. D. form and didn't talk about your poem.It's done in a simple straight-forward way and I get the impression that by saying 'in ancient days' you are speaking of the...
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Sorry too for not replying sooner!To Tamara:Thanks for the encouragement with this one, Tamara. If it hadn't been for you bringing this particular sonnet form to my attention, I would still be in the...
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