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How do you recognize that it's a sonnet you're reading?

Barry


On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:54:18 +0100, David Bircumshaw 
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>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