Arkansas Football Player Wrote A “Sonnet” About Being A Razorback, Doesn’t Know What A Sonnet Is

Vin Ascolese is an incoming freshman recruit for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team and an aspiring poet.

1. This is Vin Ascolese. He will be a freshman football player at Arkansas in the fall.

Source: @Ascolese11

2. This is Vin’s “Sonnet”: “The Razorback”

Source: @Ascolese11

These Are The (More Famous) Forms Of Sonnets

1. Petrarchan Sonnet:
Number Of Lines: 14
Typical Topic: Love
Typical Rhyme Form:
a b b a a b b a c d e c d e OR
a b b a a b b a c d c d c d

2. Spenserian Sonnet
Number Of Lines: 14
Typical Topic: Love
Typical Rhyme Form:
a b a b b c b c c d c d e e

3. Shakespearian Sonnet
Number Of Lines: 14
Typical Topic: Love
Typical Rhyme Form:
a b a b c d c d e f e f g g

Now obviously Ascolese’s sonnet doesn’t fit any of these forms so it’s time we added…

4. The Asolesian Sonnet
Number Of Lines: 18
Typical Topic: Football
Typical Rhyme Form:
a b c d e a f e g h i j k l h m n o

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