News at Eleven: This is something one may hear

on the local news or "Jerry Springer." However, [Ernest] Hilbert's use of this classic form contrasts with the brutality of the subject, elevating it beyond such coarse voyeurism as is viewed on such programming. In "Domestic Situation," Hilbert has varied the Shakespearian rhyme scheme--abcabcdefdefgg--which subtly breaks the poem into tercets rather than quatrains. The shift, or volta, of the poem occurs as it traditionally does after the eighth line, and his couplet acts as commentary. All fourteen lines are ten syllables, and the stresses vary between four and five per line.

from Bookslut: Sixty Sonnets by Ernest Hilbert

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