![]() When using a volta with the Butterfly Sonnet, it should be located somewhere between Line 6 to 8 (Lines 5 to 7 in the Baby Butterfly). The body couplet must rhyme with itself (by definition), and that rhyme must be distinct from (not rhyme with any of) the lines in the wings. A shorter variation would be a “baby butterfly,” which would contain quaintains rather than sestets (12 lines total). Structure: A mirror-type sonnet consisting of one sestet (the first “wing”), one couplet (the “body”), and another sestet (the second “wing”). When using iambic meter, this sonnet will contains the same even number of syllables for hard (masculine)-rhymed lines, the same odd number of syllables for soft (feminine)-rhymed lines (e.g., 10 and 11 syllables, respectively, for hard/male and soft/female rhymes in iambic pentameter). Line Length: Isosyllabic (with allowed variations). Poem Length: 14 lines (12 lines for a “baby butterfly”) Variations can include other components, such as repetition. Type: Structural, isosyllabic, metrical, rhyming. I had to name it after myself, as I was pointed to some pre-existing similar forms (which are noted below). Here is a variation on the Sonnet I created. ![]() The BearWoman Butterfly (and Baby Butterfly) Sonnet
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