Excerpt from The Anfathomable Sorrow: A Sonnet Sequence From the Passion and Other Scriptural Sonnets
Nothing by way of originality is claimed for the verse in the following pages, unless it be the use of the sonnet form as an appropriate vehicle of expression for certain Scriptural passages. Most of the lines have been deliberately copied from the text of the Authorized Version. In many cases the author"s task has been little more than that of transposition and rhyme. Rhythm abounds throughout the Scriptures and very often it is the rhythm of iambic pentameter. The rhyme of course had to be supplied in order to slip the content into the sonnet mold. But there is no doubt whatever in the minds of those who have given the matter thought, that The Beatitudes, The Lord"s Prayer, The Commandments, most of The Psalms, and many paragraphs in the four Gospels are sonnet in spirit and all but sonnet in form. Indeed, there are many passages which have the exact number of verses and the distinctly marked ebb and flow of the sonnet.
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