Demi-sonnet

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A demi-sonnet is a poetic form. Demi-sonnets include seven lines of varying length and tend to be aphoristic in nature. Each poem ends with an internal full or slant rhyme.

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Etymology

The name comes from the fact that the form is half the length of a traditional 14-line sonnet.

References

    Scythe Literary Journal Best of the Net Anthology Kestrel


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