That is my house in a recent snow storm. That is my bedroom window.

This poem is a Petrarchan Sonnet
The most famous early Sonneteer was Petrarca (known in English as Petrarch). He popularized the Italian Sonnet, which now carries his name. The basic meter of all Sonnets in English is iambic pentameter, although there have been a few tetrameter and even hexameter Sonnets, as well.

The Italian sonnet is divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines is called the Octave and rhymes as follows:
a b b a a b b a
The remaining 6 lines is called the Sestet and can have either two or three rhyming sounds, arranged in a variety of ways:
c d c d c d
c d d c d c
c d e c d e
c d e c e d
c d c e d c
The exact pattern of Sestet rhymes (unlike the octave pattern) is flexible. In strict practice, the one thing that is to be avoided in the Sestet is ending with a couplet (dd or ee), as this was never permitted in Italy, and Petrarch himself (supposedly) never used a couplet ending; in actual practice, Sestets are sometimes ended with couplets.
The poem is thus divided into two sections by the two differing rhyme groups. In accordance with the principle, a change from one rhyme group to another signifies a change in subject matter. This change occurs at the beginning of line 9 (L9) in the Italian sonnet and is called the Volta,or "turn"; the turn is an essential element of the Sonnet form, perhaps the essential element.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on February 2, 2016.

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