Robin Hamilton wrote:
> (For a lulu of a conundrum, have a look at Wyatt's sonnet, "Farewell,
> Love,
> and all thy laws forever". In the Egerton MS, it's thirteen lines of
> iambpent with one awkward intrusive line, but in the earlier version,
> found
> in the Devonshire MS, "Now farewell Love and thy laws forever", it's
> roughly
> 50/50 iambic pentameter lines and four-stress lines. Difficult to know
> quite what to do with something like that.)
Read it aloud, dear boy, read it aloud.
joanna
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