American Paratroopers (American Sonnet)

American Paratroopers (American Sonnet)

The American Sonnet was made famous by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins in the well known sonnet with the first line of All we need is fourteen lines. Additionally, "American Sonnet" appears in Billy Collins's Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House, 2001). The American Sonnet does not follow any particular rhyming pattern. Frankly, the main way of identifying the sonnet is the fact that it has fourteen lines. There are times when the sonnet is written with five stanzas in the tercet form such as the piece entitled, Sonnet, by Robert Pinsky. Additionally, one may write the sonnet using a pair of four-line and three-line stanzas similar to the Romantic Sonnet written by Charles Simic. Finally, one may even ascribe to the reversed Italian sonnet format by beginning the sonnet with the sestet of six lines and ending with an octave of eight lines as used by John Ashbery in the sonnet At North Farm. The American sonnet form is consistent with the American personality of not being restricted by imposed rigidity.

American Paratroopers

Descending from above soldiers ruggedly fighting tough

Jumping from a gliding aircraft paratrooper's door

Fighting on arrival and spitting flame for the land they love

Delivering the winning score one could not ask for more;

Wearing silver paratrooper's wings on their muscled chest

Stumping airborne jump boots on their rugged kicking feet

Knowing they are the meanest and fighting best so obsessed

Feared by the enemy to tangle with or even want to meet;

Prepared they are to face the heat of battle without defeat

Carving a fighting stance they even balance while in a dance:

Gaining victory their final goal; they move stealthy on a tweet

They are "Devils in baggy pants" dubbed as fighting mad

Meeting and surpassing any test above the bloody rest

America's fighting best soldiers descending from the West!

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