a kind of sonnet

[milo]

And so I grumble up myself to face anew (six feet)

But then I think of how you wait for my return, (six too long)

Correct me if I am wrong, but Alexandrines were used by Spencer and other Elisabethan sonnet writers, if not by Shakespeare (who does use them in his blank verse. So, strictly speaking, they are not an actual violation of the sonnet form.

But you are correct about this piece's length. My real purpose though was to see how well I could maintain writing iambically.

Jeffrey

Even if the errant lines were plain old hexameter/tetrameter instead of alexandrines (which they are) you could still write a sonnet with them. Fixed forms tend to have a fixed meter. As you've said, this isn't a fixed form just rambling in quasi-ip. I have moved it to fun. I would change the title to ramblings in quasi-iambic if I was you, but that's just me.