I am exceptionally glad to add this Sonnet form to my list.
Insofar, as I know it is the only sonnet form to be created by one of the States’ Poet Laureates.
Visser Sonnet – Internal rhyme only
Octet + Sestet
-Usually Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme scheme (internal only) abbaabba cdecde
Originated by Audrae Visser,
Poet laureate of S. Dakota, 1974-2001
I found no specific column mandated for the internal rhyme
Apparently Volta is up to the poet.
Example Poem:
With Hidden Rhyme (Visser Sonnet)
A Visser Sonnet may be hard to find,
or recognize when you do, for the rhyme
is hidden from your view except when read
aloud, then it will play. It’s internal
and nicely tucked away inside each line.
It could be blank verse too, if iams rule,
for while that form if true, denies end-rhyme
it’s mute about the way one acts inside.
Yet Visser earned our praise as she was South
Dakota’s poet queen- well, laureate,
the only one of such to make this mark.
Let us our glasses raise in toast and write
a sonnet now to bring this latent form
to life and add a touch of difference.
© Lawrencealot – November 2, 2012
