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AS UNHAPPINESS TRAVELS
sadly the winds waft timeless over plains
contemplating regrets over choices
the days and nights of quickly made mistakes
and harshly judging turns the journey takes
talking in hushed tones in their quiet voices
describing in whispers the utter pain
in secret hush they gust in utter woe
carrying cries of lament as they blow
tarrying on memories far too sad
as though forever isn't long enough
to rage away the misery and grief
and yet they still gust to find a relief
they move as though purging with every puff
blustering this way to remove the bad
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From: http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/list.html
Envelope Sonnet
This is probably a variation of the Italian or Sicilian sonnet by the French, The original sonnets used an octave composed of two quatrains rhyming abba abba or abba cddc. It was probably the French fondness for linking stanzas, that conceived the idea of creating two sestets and linking them with a rhyming couplet. This gives a rhyme sequence of
a. b. c. c. b. a. .... d. d. .... e. f. g. g. f. e. and each line is octosyllabic (8 syllables) or decasyllabic (10).
PERSONAL NOTE ON THE PROCESS...
I wrote the rhymed lines on the outer of the stanzas first and then the 2nd rhyme second and filled in the middle couplet inside the stanzas last. Also... on some of the rhymes I came up with the rhyming words BEFORE making the lines. I just find it interesting how my mind works when I am trying to fit into a rhyme scheme.
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