It’s only nominally a “half line”, since there’s no meter in the poem. She adds a fifteenth “half line” to the sonnet. What she experiments with (which is why I say almost to the rhyme scheme) is the number of lines. She dispenses with meter, but almost keeps to the rhyme scheme of the typical Shakespearean Sonnet. ![]() Her latest post is Subway Sonnet ( as of Sept. Third, she writes fun posts and has the same last name as a favorite high school teacher (way back when). In fact, I have a Master’s Degree in Children’s Literature. First, she writes traditional poetry, which is to say, she tests herself against the disciplines of rhyme, meter and form. Just noticed a new netizen blogger – Karin Gustafson. Readers familiar with Shelley’s Ozymandias will pick up on a good many echoes. I wrote most of this yesterday, on the drive home, sparked by the bleak landscape of November’s first snow. This isn’t at all the way I started, but once the idea got under my skin, I had to. I can’t bring myself to write any other kind. As promised, a sonnet - Shakespearean. ![]()
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