Sweet Music
(A Sonnet Echo)
Sweet music makes a world-redeeming whole.
Without it, can't imagine how we'd be,
But life would lose delightful symmetry.
It echoes through the fibers of my soul,
With rhythms that fulfill life's gaping hole,
Of melodies that sooth the savage beast,
Or keep the couples dancing at the feast.
It echoes through the fibers of my soul,
That plays a temperament relaxing role.
The sounds bring background beauty to the world,
As soft symphonic soundbites are unfurled,
It echoes through the fibers of my soul.
Sweet music makes a world-redeeming whole,
It echoes through the fibers of my soul.
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Author Notes
Were would we be without music?
This poem is an Echo Sonnet. My second one.
I was introduced to it by Gungalo.
ECHO SONNET: This is a relatively new form devised by the well respected English Poet, Jeff Green. It takes its shape from three envelope quatrains and a couplet, the last line of each stanza is a refrain that links the quatrains and gives us a rhyme scheme of:
A, b, b, A1, a, c, c, A1, a, d, d, A1, A, A1
Where the first A sets the A rhyme and repeats once in line 13. The A1 of line 4 matches the rhyme set in A, but is a distinct repeating line that echoes 3 more times in lines 8,12 and 14. This type poem, then, has 4 rhyme sets of A, b, c, and d.
The Echo Sonnet is based on French repeating forms, but unlike those forms which are normally syllabic, the preferred rhyme scheme is Iambic pentameter, or similar, and being a sonnet it should be presented as a 14 line poem.
In this one, i tried to make the repeating A1 line carry a refrain that resonates.
The artwork is from Microsoft Images.
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