Australian Sonnet or Bowlesian Sonnet
This sonnet is named for it’s creator, William Lisle Bowles, a minister of the Church of England, who preached in Austalia. It held its height of popularity from the 1800s to the 1900s and soon settled into obscurity. It has three Envelope quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme sequence is abba cddc effe gg.
Hopes for Death
What will become of me?
When I am gone and done
When my body shunned
And my eyes blind to see
Will I wither
Deep in ground
With body bound
Forgotten and bitter
Or is there a world beyond?
Rich in light and hope
Where all may cope
And death dies and peace is dawned
I can only hope it be the latter
For if not, in the end, all lives shatter
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