Alternate Forms for Sonnet 18

Adam Bertocci, who brought us Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, just blew my mind. He didn’t just write half a dozen alternate versions of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet, he wrote 22 of them.

Can you even *name* 22 different styles of poetry? I couldn’t.

Haiku version? Check.   Limerick? Of course. Petrarchan and Spenserian variations on the form? No problem.

How about one written in Abecedarian? That’s when you write your words in a____ b___ c___ sequence, and yes you include Q, X and Z, and stop at Z.

Or what about Pilish?  That’s a three letter word followed by a one letter word, then four, then one, then five… following the digits of pi (3.1415…)

Now realize that I’ve only named 6 of them. He wrote 22. Enjoy.  Very impressive, Adam!

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