ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

A great response to the last lot of prompts and some truly terrific poems came out of it. Good to see so many of you having a go

Hope these might provide some more inspiration - as always use one prompt or use all. Make your poem long or short. A limerick, a sonnet, a ballad. Who knows where the words will take you???? Just be sure to enjoy the journey.

Please mark as homework for w/e 12.09.11 then the title of your poem.

Away you go then………………….

Cheers

Maureen


Wallabadah
Sirius/Supply/ Prince of Wales/Charlotte
Botany Bay
chains
Thunderbolt
defiant scoundrel

Do the sonnets have to have Rhyme and Metre ??????? And where can we post them ?????


Bob

yes, yes Here as homework Bob

G'day Bob

Traditional sonnets are written in iambic pentameter. They also have set rhyming schemes. In their regular forms they have fourteen lines (tailed sonnets are longer and make use of additional short lines; curtal sonnets are shorter and contain ten to eleven lines). The Italian sonnet and Miltonic sonnet are rhymed a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-e, c-d-e. The English or Shakespearean sonnet is rhymed a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. The Spenserian Sonnet is rhymed a-b-a-b, b-c-b-c, c-d-c-d, e-e.

Regards


John Peel