Explore the Craft of Writing Poetry The Sonnet Sonnet Comparison Chart American Verse
The Glorionic Sonnet is an invented sonnet form inspired by the writing of John Milton. This is a contest form which has been used by many workshops. Introduced by Gloria Martin in 1976 and found in The Study and Writing of Poetry; American Women Poets Discuss Their Craft, 1983.
The elements of the Glorionic Sonnet are:
a quatorzain made up of an octave and a sestet.
metric, iambic pentameter.
rhymed, aabbbccc ddedee.
composed with the pivot in the declamatory end couplet.