Garbro.
Sonnets these days do not necessarily conform to a set rhyme scheme,
if my maths is correct, it is possible to arrange 14 iambic pentameters in
almost 200,000,000 rhyme schemes and _all_ are possible variants of the
sonnet form.
The two most popular forms are the Shakespearean and Spenserian which both
end in rhyming couplets. The third popular form, Petrarchan,usually divides
into an octave(octet)of two quatrains linked by rhyme.(abbaabba) and a
sestet, usually of two tercets also linked by rhyme (such as cdeedc, cdecde
or even cdedce).
David therefore has a perfectly valid form.
Hope this short explanation of a complex subject is helpful,
Roger.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:43 PM
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of folk who found that progress bears a cost.
I wonder, were their spirits to return,
would they stand silent, awed by all our gains,
or stricken, seeing everything we've lost?
David, always a pleasure to read you, but a question. I thought the end
couplet always rhymed (though nothing is always).
Thanks.
Gary
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