The Language Parallax: Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy (Texas Linguistics Series) by Paul Friedrich

Author:Paul Friedrich [Friedrich, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

of which the two with aabb in position II would be marginal.

If we then assume up to three rhyme words in the tercet (c, d, e), we get the following sestets: cdecde, cedced, and so forth. Of the mathematically possible sestets, Petrarch favored at least four: couplets (cdcdcd), repeated, symmetrical tercets (particularly cdecde and cdccdc), and asymmetrical tercets (particularly cdedce). Even within these limits there are four times four or sixteen totally conventional Italian sonnet forms. But at least one anthologized English-language sonnet in the Italian style has been found that ends in one out of fifteen of the total number of possible sestets. If we multiply this total of fifteen sestets times the total of four (non-marginal) octaves, we get a total of sixty possible rhyme schemes with a good precedent in our language. The sestets that I have found, with the names of the poets and the poems, are tabulated below in figure 5.

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