365 Sonnets: Celebrating Each Day with a “Little Song”

Description 365 Sonnets celebrates each day of the year with a sonetto (Little Song) that relates in some significant way to the day’s observance of a holiday. The sonnet is a formal poetic work of 14 rhymed and rhythmic lines, 140 syllables that tell a story in a musical way. The word ‘sonnet’ comes from the Italian sonetto, or “little song.” All the poems in this volume adhere to the basic rules of the sonnet: 14 lines, iambic pentameter (one is iambic hexameter), and either a Shakespearean or Petrarchan rhyme scheme. However, the sonnets are Miltonian in rejecting strict quatrain/couplet and octave/sestet rules in favor of expressive freedom and continuity, much of it through the use of enjambment, which allows the uninterrupted flow of a sentence structure from one quatrain to another.