Fourteen lines doth not a sonnet make 2008/8/7 Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>: > a sonnet! > You and Hal are competing, it seems. > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> Thanks barry, it was just a frustrated snap, & I tend to want to eschew the >> apostrophe if i can). >> >> Didnt even notice that it was 14 lines! >> >> Doug >> On 7-Aug-08, at 7:49 AM, Barry Alpert wrote: >> >> I'm admiring the enactment of temporal delay surrounding the turn of the >>> sonnet in line >>> 6, but can't decide whether the opening s of the 14th line works or if 's >>> would be >>> preferable. >>> >>> Barry >>> >> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/> >> >> Latest books: >> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> Wednesdays' >> >> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html >> >> Poetry always was, and always >> should be, pre-eminently that: >> significant sound. >> >> D.G. Bridson >> > > > > -- > Anny Ballardini > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing > star! > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk