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2008/8/8 Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
> How do you recognize that it's a sonnet you're reading?
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:54:18 +0100, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>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
>
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