> Mine are non-metrical, non-rhyming (for the most part)
> sonnets. The sonnet's a broad, deep river with interesting
> eddies at its margins.
OK, Hal, please would you educate us?
What makes a poem a sonnet, and not just a 14-line poem?
That it presents an opinion?
That the lines are longish and all about the same length?
That if you really work at it you read it with five stresses per line?
I have a book somewhere that claims sonnets should have
a "volta", a twist at about line 9, but I don't see that
in this one.
I suspect Kasper is more interested in why you bother labelling
it a sonnet, what your purpose is in doing that.
Janet
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Allegedly, some kid poet came over to Robert Frost at some gathering and
introduced himself by saying "I'm a poet." Frost replied "That's a
praise word. I'd wait 'til someone else called me that."
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