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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.

Contents

• Etymology
• References
• External links

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

External links

• Word Problems by Erin Murphy
• Demi-sonnet in Best of the Net anthology: http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/2009/murphye.htm
• 4 demi-sonnets in the Spring 2010 issue of Scythe Literary Journal: http://scytheliteraryjournal.com/
• 3 demi-sonnets in Kestrel (under Erin Murphy) http://www.fairmontstate.edu/kestrel/issue-24-spring-2010
• Demi-sonnet in Tattoo Highway

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