GOOYCZ Round Four Rules

LEAP INTO THE FINAL ROUND IF YOU DARE
or
HOW SADIE HAWKINS GOT HER GROOVE ON

GOOYCZ Round Four Rules:

Remember RULE NUMBER ONE: Do not advertise you are in the contest!
Rule number two: Do not post your poems to your account until the contest is over.

Send entries to me, Larry, by PM not later than Wednesday 29 February 11:59 pm (23:59) PnQ time (New York City time).

Form Selection: SONNET !

ROUND FOUR: Write a Sonnet. There is only one restriction as to subject or style; that is, it can be about anything serious, philosophical or whatever, BUT not humorous. I have given two examples by PnQ members for this form. These are only examples of the form and are not meant to suggest any subject or style. Good Luck & HAVE FUN!

Sonnet 4 See: [http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/life/poems.php?id=1163114]
And see: [http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/nature/poems.php?id=1175336]
The essence of a sonnet is a two-part argument presented in 14 iambic pentameter lines with varying rhyme schemes. It begins with a proposition, describing a problem or thesis which is developed in the leading octave, followed by the solution in the final sestet. Typical rhyme schemes are: [a-b-b-a a-b-b-a c-d-c-d-c-d] or [a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f-e-f]. A dramatic variation, the "heroic form" might be: [a-b-b-a a-b-b-a c-c-c-d-d-d].
Specific forms abound but the two major variants are:
- the Shakespearean sonnet: three quatrains, with a couplet, a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g all with 10 syllable lines;
- the Italian sonnet: an octave, a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a, with a sestet, c-d-e-c-d-e or c-d-c-d-c-d all with 10 or 11 syllable lines

See also: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html

LEAP INTO THE FINAL ROUND IF YOU DARE

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Please do not let this pun go unnoticed...this is a leap year after all...and it gives you 1 extra day to submit....also gives anyone who is game enough to want Fred some extra time too....bonus!!!

Good luck everyone!!!

I am looking forward to seeing what everyone will come up with!!!

x

This contest should be over with winners announced by 5 May 2012.

If you are interested in running the next one, contact the mods.

May... or March? :)

Sorry, just seems to be lasting forever!

Monday 5 March I should have the final judges' comments & scores up & the winner declared.

A bit less than 48 hours to go! 0 poems in!

New explanation of the rule for sonnet:

A sonnet is a rhymed poem, usually with two parts. The first part is 8 lines and should be able to stand on its own as a poem. The second part is 6 lines and relates back to the first part somehow. Each line has the same meter, or at least the same syllable count, usually 10 or 11.

The original explanation is still valid, but hopefully this will make it easier.

Due to confusion caused by me the deadline is extended to Sunday 4 March 2012.

8+ hours to go.
3 sonnets are well delivered
2 are yet to find the mark

5 1/2 hours

Can't wait to see what they did... Sonnets are difficult in my opinion.

True, but elegant!

4 1/2 hours, need one more sonnet!