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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.

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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