Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Sacks
I was just kidding with all my comments regarding this "sonnet" being too unconventional in form. Below please find my late entry into the contest:
Fourteen
lines
is
good
enough.
Does
not matter
about anything
else.
In
fact,
why
not any
other
number--for example, 15?
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Here you go:
The Kraken
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson*
*Obscure poet and brother to the great Frederick Tennyson, who always wrote 14-line sonnets.
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