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@sonnetsmith.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 9:37 AM

My first contribution to #PoetsOfDoom #Arsapoetica contains instructions, and an origin story for my own form of Sonnet which I have been working on. Feel free to give it a go yourself
#MeyersoneanSonnet #Sonnet #poetry

I thought, why should not sonnets have refrains?
And so, dissected this once perfect form
Restructured it, with brand new shape reborn
A potent image brought around again.

My pen a scalpel, slicing through the ink
I thought, why should not sonnets have refrains?
That rhyme scheme too, it might as well be changed
Is nothing sacred? What would Shakespeare think?

And so, I take this form and make it mine
All sparked by one small niggle in my brain
I thought, why should not sonnets have refrains
That shift; each stanza, downward by one line?

I thought, why should not sonnets have refrains?
A potent image brought around again.
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