The Sea as Green: Collected Poems

The Sea as Green is a collection of American sonets by playwright and author Stephen Evans.

A Note on the Form

I am not sure how I stumbled on the sonet form; I may have invented it, or come across it somewhere in my reading long ago. I started calling the form an American sonet to distinguish it from its European cousins (Elizabethan or Petrarchan sonnets). The form has twelve lines: two five line stanzas and one concluding couplet. The meter is mostly iambic, though the line length varies. ...