Ivy Soda Am Bad - Ah Hi Cue!

[Erthona]

I have no problems with creating a new form, I have problems with trying to legitimize the form by appealing to it's supposed origins when at best there is only a superficial resemblance, or simply imposing it ad hoc. I think a form has to show legitimacy in relation to the language, in this case English, which has not historically fit well to small forms. I have yet to see anyone make a good case for such a form, nor have I seen a good example of it, and I have yet to see any profundity despite all the haughty arrogance of some of those who champion it. The sonnet, which is a borrowed form, took hundreds of years to produce good examples, and it is still to this day a difficult form due to the syntactical difficulties of writing in iambic pentameter (avoiding, what I have heard referred to as Yoda speech). Generally it is not a form quickly or easily handled owing to its foreign roots, although one cannot deny it has a place in English poetry owing to the extreme influence of Old French (Norman French 1066 CE) on the English language. English is neither a metrical or a syllabic language, but an accentual one, so I think one has quite a challenge at hand to justify why a short syllabic form is a good idea for English poetry.

"i wonder what a Japanese sonnet would look like ?"

As there is no such thing as iambic pentameter in Japanese, and I have no idea if rhyme makes any sense in the language, I would suppose it would look like what a haiku looks like in English, in the case of the sonnet, fourteen lines that are composed of 5 "on" each.

Dale