{"id":29,"date":"2006-03-01T04:58:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-03-01T04:58:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T09:58:42","slug":"sonnet-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/01\/sonnet-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet Song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The challenge of writing this sonnet is that I prefer free verse, and find that any excursion I take into forms such as the sonnet become canted by the dynamics of the form itself; for example, the inverted syntax of Elizabethan English certainly works more smoothly than modern idiom. I found, while working on this piece that I had a distinct tendency to fall into forced rhythms which are alien to the natural rhythm of the individual words \u2014 a trait better suited to comic verse than serious. I’ll save the original version here, then publish a version that I will tinker with, under the title of “Sonnet Song — in progress”
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There are strange things done in the service of writing a sonnet;
\nFor example, the modern idiom doesn’t quite fit:
\nYou would think an Elizabethan were working upon it;
\nFor the rhetoric, diction and syntax make me want to quit.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the stanza that just won’t behave itself properly;
\nYou’d think it was Gilbert and Sullivan trying to break free.
\nI try to take change and rein in this cantankerous property;
\nBut nothing I try can stop melting my cool by degrees.<\/p>\n

Of course fans of free verse will just turn up their noses at scansion:
\nAnd rhyming will alienate and completely bewilder;
\nBut look at the words and the style of the rhymers and rappers
\nThey’re not just old fogies with hair long and wavey and silver.<\/p>\n

Before you say a sonnet’s only crap,
\nJust listen to the brothers doing rap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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