[Bards] Sonnets

[Jay Rudin]

Esther asked:

> An interesting site with different forms of sonnets on it, a brief history
> of the form and examples.
>
> At the bottom, there is a very brief description of the "heroic sonnet",
but
> no example. Can anyone give me more info on this one? Like, is it period?

A brief search through my books yielded nothing.  An Internet search
unearthed the following:

Heroic Sonnet: An 18-line poem that is like the English Sonnet with the
addition of a fourth quatrain (after the third) in alternating rhyme.
(http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/sonnet.htm)

HEROIC SONNET
An 18 line sonnet where heroic couplets are added to two stanzas of iambic
pentameter octave or to four quatrains.
(http://www.geocities.com/Bikies_poetry/sonnet1.html)


I can't find any reference to it as a period form.  I also can't find
reference to any pre-17th century sonnet that isn't 14 lines.  Sorry.