Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Great Regulars: "Oil & Steel" [by Henri Cole] has 14 lines,

like a sonnet. Instead of end rhyme, its lines often conclude with slight, polysyllabic echoes of consonant or vowel: "mausoleum," "television," "fiction," for example. A similar muffled similarity associates the sounds of "Bushmills," "courtroom," "useful."

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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1 comment :

Anonymous said...

Cole is great with the free-verse, single-stanza sonnets.