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Researching Poetry
Research for different forms terms and devices in the world of poetry. By Larry Powers.
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The Saraband SonnetEntry #591892
The Saraband Sonnet is a delightful little sonnet form. In my search, I found only one place that mentioned the Saraband,
http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2006Challenge/treten.html

The Saraband is based on a musical dance form and was originally an Asian dance. The poetry form was introduced in Spain in the 1700’s and later became known in France and Italy.

The Saraband Sonnet has four stanzas, alternating between tercets (3 lines) and quantrains (4 lines). The Saraband Sonnet affords the poet liberty in both rhyme scheme and either iambic tetrameter or pentameter.

Stanzas one and three, the tercets, carry a rhyme scheme of [a – x – a]. There are two options for rhyme in the second lines of the tercets. They may be omitted from the rhyme scheme, meaning they do not have to rhyme with any other line, or the second line of stanzas one and three (the x line in a-x-a) can rhyme with each other.

Stanzas two and four, the quatrains, may carry rhyme schemes of [b – b – c – c ], [b – c – b – c], [b – c – c – b], or any combination of the three.

The meter of the poem, in purest form, is tetrameter (8 syllables – 4 iambic or trochaic feet), usually iambic or trochaic meter, but it can also be written in pentameter (10 syllables – 5 iambic or trochaic feet).

Here is a Saraband sonnet I wrote in iambic tetratmeter.

Children’s Eyes


The breath of morning’s gentle breeze
aflutter, lingered, whispering
amid the leaves of linden trees.

The timid light of dawn awoke
where mating doves of mourning cooed.
The genesis awakening spoke,
alluring, lodged in solitude.

Along the banks of splashing streams,
he heard the voice of ancients sing,
reminding him – preserve the dreams.

As side to side his body swayed;
in native words of old he prayed.
He saw his people’s children’s eyes
and raised his hands toward the skies.

~~a Saraband Sonnet
Larry Powers
“kansaspoet”
2008
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