Thanks, everyone.
I'm delighted to have found my way over here at last, as technically I am
not ept. Now I'm here I'll try to participate.
I'm pleased you enjoyed this slight poem. It's a piece of fun, written to
demonstrate my theory that the sonnet is the most versatile poetic form and
can even be used for telling jokes. I've written a couple and they may
develop into a little series.
James, I think there's enormous regional variation in the way we stress
words. To my ear the stresses in that line fall as:
"inSPIRED her NOted INsectILE poLEMics", and the whole sonnet is iambic
with the exception of the trochaic inversion opening L7.
However, I can clearly recognise the alternative stresses that others may
hear.
Bob, yes, I know Don Paterson's anthology very well. There are some
inspired choices (and some eccentric ones). The introduction's great,
barring his theory on the mathematical construction of the sonnet, which I
find a little over the top.
Christina, Ryfkah, glad you like it. But I'm wounded, Christina, that you
prefer this to my other Works of Art (joking).
Mick, its nose, perhaps?
Regards
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