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? ------------- ------------- 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 -- $BEOJU?.Fs (B WATANABE Shinji $BN)65BgU\65<x (B $BJ8U\It1QJFJ8U\2J (B $B"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"! (B Official Mail Address: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Official Home Page : http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/~z5000026/ $B!! (B $B"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"! (B Home Mail $B!' ([log in to unmask] Private HP : http://www.geocities.co.jp/Bookend-Hemingway/6617/ $B"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"!"! (B