"Couplet" Blogs & Blog Posts

This is why I love the Brisbane sonnet: I’ve never heard of it before. Sure, we all know of Shakespearean sonnets or Petrarchans or Elizabethans—but what the heck is a Brisbane sonnet? A Brisbane sonnet, like every sonnet, has 14 lines; the diffe...

When I wrote my first sonnet at ten, I had no idea it had to be in iambic pentameter — that’s probably one thing to keep in mind when writing one. Plus, the nifty ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme. But then I can just hear my ten-year old se...