Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell

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Blackberry Eating

I love to go out in late September
among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
to eat blackbe .........
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Galway Kinnell

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Kerry Wood (8/17/2008 12:23:00 AM)
I am not sure whether to call this poem a sonnet or a quatorzain. It is not rhymed iambic pentameter, but it has the typical octave/sestet meaning shift of conventional sonnets. I note that other poets (Robert Hayden, for instance) call their unrhymed free verse 14-liners sonnets. I have never seen Mr. Kinnell's poem so labeled. Can anyone give me a clue? I have written extensively aboout the poem but don't know what to call it in terms of traditional forms.