I'd like to know what is the crucial point of the sonnet:
Number of syllables? Rhyme? Fourteen lines? Or anything else?
How about W.C.Williams' "The Lonely Street" in page 20
of Selected Poems of WCW (New Direction Paperbook)?
It has fourteen lines; is it a sonnet?
And did WCW inveigh against sestina?
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Do you not see now why I have been inveighing against the sonnet all these
years? And why it has been so violently defended? Because it is a form
which does not admit of the slightest structural change in its composition.
-- WCW, The Poem as a Field of Action
Tim Romano
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