Basic Sonnet Forms Basic Sonnet Forms Nelson Miller From the Cayuse Press Writers Exchange BoardĪ sonnet is fundamentally a dialectical construct which allows the poet to examine the nature and ramifications of two usually contrastive ideas,emotions, states of mind, beliefs, actions, events, images, etc., byjuxtaposing the two against each other, and possibly resolving or justrevealing the tensions created and operative between the two.
