{"id":21,"date":"2006-03-06T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T03:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-03-06T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T03:44:40","slug":"the-sonnet-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/06\/the-sonnet-form\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sonnet Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been told that a sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, and that my &#8220;sonnets&#8221; are full of iambs and anapaests, and therefore not sonnets.<\/p>\n<p>Fair comment. I just find that sticking with iambic pentameter seems to force me into an pseudo-elizabethan cant that does not work for me. So I branch out, but still call the poems sonnets, because I like the general structure of a sonnet; I still use five stresses per line, and fourteen lines arranged in more or less one of the traditional structures. Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been told that a sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, and that my &#8220;sonnets&#8221; are full of iambs and anapaests, and therefore not sonnets. Fair comment. I just find that sticking with iambic pentameter seems to force me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/06\/the-sonnet-form\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-on-poetry","category-on-the-process-of-writing","category-sonnets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}