Gadget Sonnets

Gadget Sonnets (Count as of November 1, 2017 = 70)

 2015

This index lists only sonnets which I have classified as “Gadget” Sonnet.  They have refrain, or have construction or length requirements which fall outside of the “standard” sonnet area, which generally vary only in meter, line-length, rhyme pattern or volta requirements.

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Passionate Moon Proving Love Was Alive

 

She was a beautiful princess well bred

With raven hair, tresses of pure delight

Rivaling Aphrodite many said

With dawn's radiance and bright golden sight

Dancing at corn harvest's festival ball

In shimmering gown of splashing cobalt blue

A ravishing young lady said one and all

No finer beauty had world ever grew.

 

Waiting for her handsome prince to arrive.

Having never before felt so alive.

 

On the garden terrace, moon beaming down

She felt its soft glow through her princess gown

Passionate moon proving love was alive

She knelt praying, her prince would soon arrive.

 

Robert J. Lindley, 3-29-2021

Tory HexaTet Sonnet

 rhyme scheme- ababcdcd ee ffgg

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13 Line Sonnet Any sonnet form which ends in couplet, wherein the poet combines two lines into one with internal rhyme.
 AA Sonnet (12 Step Sonnet) abab cdcd efef gg
Staircase internal rhyme
Acrostic Sonnet * TREATMENT rather than form
Acrostic Tribute Sonnet Acrostic plus title yields message.
Alternating Sonnet  abba/ccd/abba/ede or aab/cddc/ebe/cddc
Alternate quatrains and tercets
Amanda’s Dark Sonnet
It is a sonnet consisting of two seven line stanza’s.
The first letters of each line form a two word acrostic, which must be alliterative.
The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabbcca abbccdd
Arabian  Onegin Sonnet  AaAa BBbb CdC DDd
Bardic Sonnet English Sonnet with cross-rhyme and Consonant End-Rhyme.
Beginning of the Line Rhymed Sonnet aabbccddeeffgg
Blues Sonnet AAa BBb CCc DDd ee
Bush Ballad Meter Sonnet ababcdcdefefgg, syllabic 15/11, anpestic and iambic
Busta Sonnetto A sonnet made up of two quintets (with envelope rhyme) and a quattrain, in any order.  Hundreds of possible rhyme schemes.
Chained Sonnet Can use any other sonnet form and rhyme pattern.
Must chain last word of line to first word of next line.
Caudate Sonnet abbaabbacdcdcd dee .
Cornish Sonnet Abacbc Dedfef AD or abacbC dedfeF CF 
Cross Sonnet aabb ccdd eeff gg or abab cdcd efef gg
Curtailed Quaintrelle 3 quatrain + couplet, 8886/8886/8886/88
Rhymed:  aa(bb)c dd(ee)c ff(gg)h ii
Curtailed Sonnet abcabc defde  or  abcabc dbcdc
 
Deplorable Sonnet aaaB cccB dd eeeB
Doggonnet
They rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
All lines are six syllables.
Two of the quatrains MUST be iambic trimeter.
The other quatrain MUST be trochaic trimeter.

The couplet may be either meter
Double Trouble Sonnet Front and end-rhyme:
(a/b)(a/b)(c/d)(c/d)(e/f)(e/f)(g/h)(g/h)(i/j)(i/j)(k/l)(k/l)(m/n)(m/n)
Echo Sonnet a*bbA accA addA a*A
Elfmath Sonnet  Re-uses identical words in specific pattern as opposed to rhyme scheme.
Folded Sonnet A gadget sonnet of 12 lines in iambic heptameter.
Germanic Caudated Sonnet abbabccb cddcdd dee dff dgg
Heroic Sonnet ababcdcdefefghgh ii
Hybrid Sonnet abba abba cdcd eeabab cdcd efgefg abab cdcd efefef or abba cddc effe gg
Hyper Sonnet Four tercets plus a couplet.
Syllabic 10/8/6/5, Rhyme scheme is axa axa xaa xaa aa
Illini Sonnet Written in both iambic pentameter and tetrameter.
Rhymed: abcabcdbcdecee
John Tee Sonnet ABcdefABghijAB

 

 
Kiss Cross Sonnet aabb ccdd eeff gg or abab cdcd efef gg 
Kyrielle Sonnet AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.
Korean Sonnet  aaaaaaaa bbbbbbbb; a 16 line sonnet
Limerick  Sonnet Three quatrains in anapestic meter.
Created by Jeff Green
 Luc Bat Sonnet A Vietnamese form with 6/8/6/8..syllable lines and
internal rhyme.
LuVailean Sonnet An invented sonnet form with alternating iambic pentameter and iambic dimeter lines, concluding with a heroic couplet.
Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg.
Multidirectional Sonnet Sonnet Treatment – Not a form
Mystique’s Mini Sonnet It is Stanzaic with three quatrains and a couplet
It is Syllabic 6/6/7/7 6/6/7/7 6/6/7/7  7/7
It is Rhymed with a Refrain
Rhyme Pattern Aabb cccc Aa cc dd
Nevada Sonnet Use any sonnet rhyme patteren + Interna Rhyme
Passion Sonnet A1bA2B1 bcB1c B1dbd A1A2
Paulo Comitatu Sonnet
This sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains, the first line of each being iambic  pentameter or tetrameter, and  the next three being one foot less (tetrameter or trimeter).
The closing couplet is Iambic pentameter.
Rhyme scheme: abbb accc deee dd
Princess Sonnet A formulistic sonnet with first syllable(s) rhyme with is the inverse pattern of the orginal sonnet form chosed.
Quatern Sonnet No rhyme Required, Any Permitted   
Queen’s Sonnet

Rhyme Scheme: abba ccac deed ff
Rainis Sonnet abab cbc aa, abab cbc bb, abab cbc cc abab cac aa
abab cac bb, abab cac cc, abab cac aa
Refrained Sonnet A refrained rendition of an Italian Sonnet.
Rhyme Scheme: abba cbbc dbbdcc
Relaxed Sonnet Alternating iambic trimeter and iambic dimeter lines
and the final couplet being iambic pentameter
Rhymed: abababcdcdcdee, where the a-rhymes are feminine.
Rondel Prime Sonnet ABba abAB abbaAB
Schwim’s Sonnet A 13 line sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains plus a closing line.
Internal rhyme on odd-numbered quatrain lines.
Created by W.W. Schwim.
Sephallian Reverse Sonnet When read in the normal fashion, the poem has a pessimistic tone, but when read from bottom to top, it becomes and optimistic poem.  The rhyme scheme is abcdeedcbaffa and may optionally be written as a refrain sonnet as A1bcdeedcbA2ffA2A1.
Sestina Sonnet No Rhyme, Formulistic word pattern
Shadow Sonnet Any Sonnet rhyme + Internal rhyme
Signature Sonnet A 15 line sonnet, 3 quintains, aabba bbaab ababa,
iambic tetrameter, created by B. Chandler
Skeeter Sonnet A gadget sonnet consisting of a lines of two feet:
A dactyl plus a trochee, which is catalectic on all even lines except the last.
Slide Sonnet aabb ccdd eeff gg or abab cdcd efef gg
or abba cddc effe gg  Refrain
Sonnet Anapest  A sonnet in English Sonnet form written in anapestic tetrameter and trimeter.
Sonnet Reversed A sonnet in iambic pentameter,
with Rhyme Scheme: aa bcbddedefgfg
Sonnet Reversii A lexical sonnet, where the last word of each line, is the first word of the next line, and the first and last word of the sonnet are the same.
Sonondilla It should be written in octosyllabic lines.
Meter either iambic or trochaic
Rhyme Scheme: abbaabbaccddcc
Volta to appear at line 9.
Super Sonnet Any rhyme Scheme, 4 to 8 quatrains followed by couplet
Swannet A1. b. b. A2… c. d. d. c… e. f. f. e… A1. A2.
Tet Zayin Sonnet Aabb bbcc ccdd ddaA – Amera Anderson
Terza Rima Sonnet

 

 
 A1bA2 bcb cdc dad A1A2 or  aba bcb cdc ded ff
Tory HexaTet Sonnet

 

 
 ababcdcd ee ffgg 
Transitive Sonnet aa bbb cccc bbb aa rhyme scheme May change between occurrences of indicated rhyme on basis of
slant rhyme, sight rhyme, metronyms, etc.
Triolet Sonnet  ABaAab ABaAab AB
Trinidad Sonnet Aba cbc Ded fef AD

Tirrell Sonnet 		 A1A2 bcb cddc bcb A2A1
Whimsical Sonnet

 

 
 Lines alternate between iambic pentameter and hexameter
Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede ff*
where f* is a near rhyme to f
Word Sonnet any sonnet rhyme pattern, one word per line