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Sonnet (Gull Flight)
Through long hours the flare rippled flame |
Author's note: back in the 1970s, while I was still at high school, I struggled wretchedly to write a sonnet. The following rather uncertain exercise in iambic pentameter (more or less) is the closest I got to achieving the form. Not very close, really. The first line most definitely is not iambic pentameter, and the second line only has four feet. (Try as I might, I could not perform the surgery necessary to add the missing foot.) Anyway, I published the version shown above in 1976 (not a good year for the sonnet.)
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Memory Flight
In memory the flare is rippling flame |
Author's note: the "Memory Flight" version is rather better than the original "Gull Flight" version in that there is less waste space - fewer syllables thrown in, empty of meaning, simply to pad out a line of iambic pentameter. However, as sonnets go, this one still leaves quite a bit to be desired.
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Publication details: The first version of this poem was published under the title "Gull Flight" in Craccum on 1976 June 8. It was first published when posted on the Internet on 2003 July 05 Saturday, together with a revised version called "Memory Flight". Copyright © 1976, 2003 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.
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