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On the Writing of Sonnets and an Exampled One
Sometimes square words make a reluctant fit
in sonnet's round-holed ten-syllabled line,
I find hammers and razors used, with wit,
can often shape 'em up, and make 'em rhyme.
Then craft them suckers with file and chisel
to hack out drivel, if you crack your thumb
with the hammer then try not to grizzle
but use the pain to exercise mind's tongue,
and write with passion and bloody anger
use the same blood dripping down on your page
do not write with some drab assumed languor
but spit it out, in pain, hatred and rage...
And try not to write lovey-dovey stuff
But rage, rage and rage again, fair enough?
in sonnet's round-holed ten-syllabled line,
I find hammers and razors used, with wit,
can often shape 'em up, and make 'em rhyme.
Then craft them suckers with file and chisel
to hack out drivel, if you crack your thumb
with the hammer then try not to grizzle
but use the pain to exercise mind's tongue,
and write with passion and bloody anger
use the same blood dripping down on your page
do not write with some drab assumed languor
but spit it out, in pain, hatred and rage...
And try not to write lovey-dovey stuff
But rage, rage and rage again, fair enough?
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