More Poet's Place Poems

Insomnia Nightmare Cornish Sonnet

Insomnia Nightmare Cornish Sonnet

the Cornish Sonnet has an intriguing pattern of rhyme and repetition, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1057-cornish-sonnet/

Nightmare Cornish Sonnet

Insomnia, nightmares all night
In my dreams, I fear death’s coming
It gives me such a dreadful fright.
Playing the endless “what if” game.
It is all so mind-numbing.
Forever wondering who’s to blame.
At 0 dark hour
I cannot sleep, my thoughts won’t keep.
I have no strength, I’ve lost all power.
These constant nightmares twist and turn.
All night long until dawn’s first sweep.
My soul is left to ache and burn
Insomnia, nightmares all night
At 0 dark hundred hours.

O Dark Hundred is military jargon for the time two hours before dawn when special forces operatives get ready for a dawn operation. Depending on location and time of year, it is between 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. For me, this is when I have nightmares amid insomnia.
1. a quatorzain, 2 sestets made up of linked enclosed tercets, followed by a refrain which is the repeat of the first line of each sestet.
2. metered at the discretion of the poet, lines should be similar length.
3. rhymed Abacbc Dedfef AD The first line of each sestet are repeated in refrain in the last couplet.
4. variable. The sonnet can be written with an alternate rhyme scheme abacbC dedfeF CF In this scenario the last line of each sestet is repeated in refrain in the last couplet.
the Cornish Sonnet has an intriguing pattern of rhyme and repetition, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1057-cornish-sonnet/