Sonic sonnet is an experimental poetic form that reimagines the traditional sonnet through the primacy of sound over sense, using phonetic patterning, alliteration, assonance, and rhythmic texture to create meaning that emerges from auditory experience rather than semantic logic. While retaining the 14-line structure (and sometimes rhyme scheme) of classical sonnets, the sonic sonnet prioritizes euphony, dissonance, or vocal gesture, often bordering on glossolalia or musical composition. Influenced by sound poetry (e.g., Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters) and contemporary phonetic poets like Christian Bök, the form challenges readers to listen as much as read, foregrounding the materiality of language. For students, the sonic sonnet expands the definition of poetic meaning, demonstrating how sound can evoke emotion, atmosphere, and even narrative without conventional syntax or denotation.

Sonic sonnet prioritizes sound over traditional sonnet structure, challenging form's conventions. Related to sound poetry. Fourteen-line constraint may remain. Explores poetry's acoustic essence. Experimental and avant-garde.