Sonnet Variations Poets Fun with Forms Author:Robert S. Shelford The classic sonnet is a rhymed, lyric poem of fourteen Iambic pentameter lines.... Today there are literally hundreds of varieties of the two classic formats. — In this book, four accomplished poets, and the instructor, selected and experimented with some popular forms. A brief explanation of each form is given before the poems. A few other inter... more »esting forms are described in the Glossary.« less