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Princess Sonnet

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This form was invented by Allan R. Emery, aka Joe King on Allpoetry.
“The same as any Sonnet form as far as syllable count and end rhymes. The difference is that the rhyme is reversed for the first syllable (or syllables) of each line.
For example: An English sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg so in an English Princess Sonnet the beginning rhyme would be reversed: baba dcdc fefe gg (or hh, as you can use a new beginning rhyme for the couplet if you wish) where the couplet would begin and end with a rhyming syllable (or multiple syllables if you can pull it off).
An Italian sonnet would have an end rhyme of: abba abba cdecde, which would mean the start rhyme for an Italian Princess Sonnet would be baab baab edcedc (or baab baab efcefc). This will give the sonnet a cascading quality when read aloud. Often a rhyme will repeat as it ends one line and begins the next. Other times the two end rhymes of a quatrain will be next to one another as well, with one ending one line and the other beginning the next. Done with forethought, it will not be apparent that the sonnet is any different except to a very disciplined eye or ear. Yet, the rhythm and intonation that doubling the number of rhymes in a sonnet creates unquestionably makes the sonnet more like a song.
With this, An English Sonnet with a beginning rhyme is an English Princess Sonnet. An Italian Sonnet with a beginning rhyme becomes and Italian Princess Sonnet. Etc. If you wish, you can have the same rhyme begin and end each line, which would be a Mirrored English Princess Sonnet, etc.”
***** Notice that you can use 2, 3, or 4 syllable rhymes if you can pull them off. However, the most interesting would be the first syllable of the start rhyme and the last syllable of the end rhyme, hence: ‘Mental’ as a first rhyme would rhyme with ‘detriment’ as an end rhyme.****
Visual Template for English Version of Princess Sonnet,
with both front-rhyme options shown.
Visual Template for Italian version of Princess Sonnet

Dual Sonnet

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Dual Sonnet
Invented by Allan R. Emery, aka Joe King on AllPoetry.com

Quatrozain
Meter: Any*
Rhyme Scheme:  Any*
The defining characteristic of this form is that it contains
two correct Sonnet rhyme patterns.
Therefore I present none here, you may choose from more than a hundred I have indentified to date.

*The poem should be written in the meter with the line length specified for the poem for identified by the end-rhyme pattern you select.

The location of the volta is also dictated by that poem type.

Here is the author’s own explanation:
This Dual Sonnet (Envelope, English) One Sonnet rhyme is executed on the sixth syllable of each line and another sonnet written in the traditional way. The rhymes are notated below in small and caps because “a” does not have to rhyme with “A”. Dual sonnets can use any two different rhyme schemes to create the poem. This one is notated below:

* X * X * a * X * A
* X * X * b * X * B
* X * X * b * X * A
* X * X * a * X * B

* X * X * a * X * C
* X * X * b * X * D
* X * X * b * X * C
* X * X * a * X * D

* X * X * c * X * E
* X * X * d * X * F
* X * X * e * X * E
* X * X * c * X * F
* X * X * d * X * G
* X * X * e * X * G

One may choose the column of the poet’s choice for the internal rhyme.

Example poem:

Don’t Knock It          (Dual Sonnet)

I guess we use this form to artfully malign
the grumblers with no style, who commonly complain.
Most poets grin or smile when treading new terrain,
but whining’s oft the norm where no new change is fine.

Let’s not be bashing thoughtful critiques showing spine,
but those who crowd the aisle and point and mock the new
as something not worthwhile if not the old world view.
As poet we should not eschew all new design.

Yet what for years has charmed, and struck us as divine
has done so all the while with its attractiveness.
Don’t think that I’ll revile the old or like it less
because I’m newly armed with forms I’ll help design

A new form may beguile, then fade, and so decline,
or might it  age awhile, improve in fact, like wine?

This is a Dual Sonnet
The specification are HERE.

This particular sonnet is based upon the
SC’s Crybaby Tear Flow  Sonnet and Betwixt Sonnet
[abba acca adda aa]                             [abba cbbc dbbd bb]
for end-rhyme and internal rhyme respectively.

Here is a visual template for the form with two specific sonnet types.