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Sonnet:
14 line
poem in iambic pentameter
(see definitions below) created by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1348),
refined by Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), Poet Laureate of France,
Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), who
created the "Shakespearian Sonnet" , William Wordsworth (1770-1850),
Jean Keats (1795-1821), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Edna
Saint-Vincent Millay (1892-1950), all credited for its evolution into
its present form.
Shakespearean:
(Current Contest Form) Uses elements of both Petrachan and Spenserian
sonnets. Consists of
three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet, with the rhyme scheme
abab/cdcd/efef/gg.
Point System:
Each team
may be awarded a possible twenty five points per "dance" ...
10
points
(per individual writer) for technical difficulty, photograph &
music
interpretation, word choice, spelling, punctuation & flow -
5
points for team cohesiveness.
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