[New-Poetry] Sonnet Contest, Prarie Home Companion

[Jason Quackenbush]

can a sonnet be in dactylic hexameter? how about choriambic dodecameter?
On Apr 3, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Bob Grumman wrote:
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>
> JforJames at aol.com wrote:
>> In a message dated 4/3/2008 6:35:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
>> bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes:
>>
>>     I'm no good at sonnets, but I'll send them an unrhymed
>>     fourteen-line haiku.
>>
>>     --Bob G.
>>
>> Bob,
>> For a guy who likes taxonomy you're very resistant to pigeonholes.
>> Finnegan
>>
>>
> Yikes, Jim, surely you didn't fail to read me as scornful of the  
> idea of unrhymed sonnets?  In fact, I have a comparison of the  
> terms, "sonnet" and "haiku" in my head waiting for delivery to my  
> blog one of these days.  I may seem inconsistent to some in  
> believing a sonnet should be 14 rhyming iambic pentameters while  
> not believing a haiku should be three lines, the first and third  
> with five syllables, the other with seven syllables.  My reason  
> reduces to my belief that the sonnet is importantly a sound- 
> mechanism, the haiku an image-mechanism.  What a poetic form most  
> is should be inviolable, but the details allowed to mutate.  So I  
> accept an aba cbc dcd efefd rhyme scheme for a sonnet because the  
> placement of the rhymenants seems unimportant to me, so long as  
> they are in it.  And how is the 9/5 division that different from  
> octave/sestet?  A haiku should be short, but who cares exactly how  
> many syllables it has.  Etc.
>
> Looks like my blog entry is under way.
>
> --Bob
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