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Does a sonnet have to follow a standard rhyme scheme?
While sonnets traditionally follow one of a handful of standard rhyme schemes, the fact of the matter is that contemporary sonnets do not necessarily follow any specific rhyme scheme. Off the top of ...
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Does a sonnet have to follow a standard rhyme scheme?
I posed this question to Google after reading Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem gay chaps at the bar in the Penguin Book of the Sonnet p. 146.
It’s 14 lines of iambic pentameter and the Volta is clearly ...
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Ghosted by literary magazine?
As someone who’s published poems (and been paid for some of those), legal action, even small claims court is unlikely to be worthwhile given the amounts involved (few venues pay more than two figures ...
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