SONNETS FROM THE POETUGUESE, Part 2

Rhyme schemantra construction

The Creative Intelligence Anarchy (CIA) of the glorious Peoples Republic of Poetry continues its obsessive application of the Shakespearean sonnet rhyme schemantra from words to other means of textpressing the glory of diversity in sonnet assemblage.

Let’s begin with coloured wooden blocks to textpress the child’s play with which this sonnet form can be implemented. This is a basic Shakespearean sonnet, the word RAINBOW with seven letters doubled to 14 stacked one atop the other in the Shakespearean rhyme schemantra.

Another textample of child’s play is the HEXADECIMAL SONNET. The sonnet content reflects computer machine language, zeros and ones. Many recall the days when computers restricted file names to eight characters. These were the building blocks of computer communications.

Let’s switch to the more adult Scrabble letter tiles, which serve as vehicles for the letters to assemble words into a Shakespearean sonnet. The example below, The Leaning Sonnet of Data, consists of the necessary elements (binary) in computer code conceptualization that delivers data. That is the ‘narrative’ of this poem with the volta being DATA DATA.

The CIA dropped the use of words and letters to textpress the Sonnet concept to objects. The example below, Poetician1 holds SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET BY CHANCE, a sonnet constructed of common dice. We all note that dice have six numbers, six sides, which does not complete a sonnet, which requires seven elements. That issue was solved by turning the horizontal six to a vertical six for the rhyming couplet, and perfectly achieving the volta, the twist in the narrative of the sonnet. Textceedingly clever.

The nimbleness of a textpansive Imagine Nation informed by the works of Conceptual Arts results in new configurations of an Elizabethan poetic form. The CIA gambled on a deck of cards and won. Several configurations were brought forth; only the best with a volta was chosen. The VERY FULL HOUSE, JOKERS WILD.

Receiving an honourable mention is A GIRL’S BEST ROYAL FLUSH.

Part 3 next when the sonnet goes full 3D.