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Verse Forms: The Sonnet

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Abstract In the last chapter we discussed the sonnet in relation to metaphor, focusing on how metaphor can be used to build a sonnet structure. Now we will consider the sonnet more generally as a verse form. Besides allowing a fuller examination of the sonnet itself, it will help us to begin thinking about the importance of formal features—frameworks, rules, conventions—for poetry and for the way poetry works.
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
Title: Verse Forms: The Sonnet
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Abstract In the last chapter we discussed the sonnet in relation to metaphor, focusing on how metaphor can be used to build a sonnet structure.
Now we will consider the sonnet more generally as a verse form.
Besides allowing a fuller examination of the sonnet itself, it will help us to begin thinking about the importance of formal features—frameworks, rules, conventions—for poetry and for the way poetry works.

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