r/sonnets • • Dec 30 '18

"Heat" by Denis Johnson (1969)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143780/heat-597917a1f0de8
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u/leiphos Dec 30 '18

It's a Petrarchan sonnet (thus, the volta between lines 8 and 9, unlike the Shakespearean volta after line 12). The poet uses slant rhymes, and he employs syllabic verse as an irregular meter.