Lannet: Poetic Forms
Poetic Form Fridays are made to share various poetic forms. This week, we look at the lannet, a twist on the sonnet.
From what I can gather online, this week's form was created by Laura Lamarca. It's sort of like a sonnet, but also sort of not like a sonnet.
Here are the guidelines:
- 14 lines
- 10 syllables per line
- No end rhymes (only internal rhymes)
There are no rules for meter or subject matter.
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Here’s my attempt at a Lannet Poem:
“from one to another,” by Robert Lee Brewer
we run for fun in the twilight sunshine
blinding our eyes with slanted light burning
through the tilt of the multiverse our shared
universe flat with dark matter and that
sense of chaos theory and electrons
and worm holes making time travel a real
impossible possibility and
probability probably a cool
correlated causality that we
calculated as a calamity
while we ran many miles along the streets
with our arms and hands and legs and feet and
a willingness to travel from one place
to another and then yet another
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
