Candlebra - Christianity And Neoclassicism Do Love Enterprise And Beauty In Religion And Art Comments

CANDLEBRA - Christianity and Neoclassicism Do Love Enterprise and Beauty in Religion and Art
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
The Brisbane Sonnet consists of two sestets and a couplet. The original sestet was based on the Hymnal Octave form which has a rhyme scheme of a.b.c.b.a.b.c.b. Two of the b lines are removed and leave a rhyme scheme of a.b.c.a.b.c. by adding another similar sestet d.e.f.d.e.f. and a couplet, g.g., this sonnet form was born.
The Hymnal used an alternating meter Iambic Tetrameter followed by Iambic Trimeter. As the Australian dialect has its own natural meter which is a mixture of Iambic and Anapest the meter was set as just any Pentameter.
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