Entropy

[milo]

Just read billy's pinned post about placing edits above the original. Apologies.

Milo--well, I used to write a "perfect Italian"--fourteen iambic pentameter feet, Italian rhyme--and then break it where doing so would produce an effect. Two of these together plus an additional broken sestet is what I call a broken double Italian.

That sounds grandiose, maybe. When I wrote that originally, I was pretty in-my-head.

It's a non-metrical free-verse poem with random line breaks. I certainly wouldn't use the definition of a form that you arent following a single part of to excuse fixing at least a couple of your pretty bad line breaks, but that's just me.

I believe leanne may have posted an actual double petrarchan. Read in wonder.

If you write a non-metrical poem with a random number of lines, a random number of feet per line with no rhyme or volta - it's not a sonnet a double sonnet a villanelle a rondeau or and other fixed form - broken or not.

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