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There are more than a few works no longer in progress from which to choose, but two of the 'project words' you chose - saga and epic - combined to narrow the field to exactly one: a Heroic Crown of Sonnets. Back in the Summer of '22, one of our fellow writers (an Idahoan by choice, or maybe just by chance), took a fancy to at least one of my sonnets. She then suggested I have a go at creating that Matterhorn of poetic endeavor, the Heroic Crown of Sonnets - fifteen sonnets chained together by theme and by rhyme, for a total of 210 lines. I've had a template set up with the required format since then, but that's about as far as I've gotten. In case you weren't sure - and I'm assuming more than one set of eyes may eventually read this - a Shakespearean (English) sonnet has 14 lines in iambic pentameter and is typically rhymed abab cdcd efef gg. For a Heroic Crown of Sonnets, the last line of the first sonnet is also the first line of the next one, thus linking the two sonnets and setting a new 'a' rhyme scheme. This continues through the first 14 sonnets. The last sonnet, however, is made up of the first lines of the previous 14 sonnets. This requires the poet to carefully select those first lines, so that the compilation at the end will create a thematically related - and meaningful - sonnet of its own. You'll have noticed that I mentioned 'theme' a couple of times; that's one of the sticking points. Nothing has come to mind that I could reasonably expect to tie together over the course of 210 lines of verse; heck, sometimes just one sonnet is challenge enough! For example, I'm working on a Villanelle right now for "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2025-2026)" . You could call it a distant cousin to the Heroic Crown of Sonnets. It only has 19 lines and a strict aba rhyme scheme throughout, but the first and third lines of the first verse alternate as the last line for the succeeding four verses, except that they then form the final two lines of the poem -- and it's giving me fits. Other than providing their take on possible themes that lend themselves to poetic expansion, I'm not sure how anyone can help, although the occasional nudge wouldn't be out of place.  [WC: 397]  |
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