In a class today on two sonnets by William Shakespeare (18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", and 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"), I began by discussing the form of a sonnet. I hadn't planned to use it, but I suddenly remembered the wonderful example of Ernst Jandl's "sonett", all of whose lines are variations on the first line: "das a das e das i das o das u". With the clear unstressed articles and the stressed names of the vowels, the meter is easy to describe. The rhyme scheme is also clear, and the fourteen lines and their organization (Petrarchan) are also straightforward. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 25 September 2024)
sonett
Ernst Jandl
das a das e das i das o das u
das u das a das e das i das o
das u das a das e das i das o
das a das e das i das o das u
das a das e das i das o das u
das u das a das e das i das o
das u das a das e das i das o
das a das e das i das o das u
das o das u das a das e das i
das i das o das u das a das e
das e das i das o das u das a
das o das u das a das e das i
das i das o das u das a das e
das e das i das o das u das a
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