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SONNET.

Publisher	Modern Poetry Association
Publication	Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0032-2032
Issues per Year	12
Volume	173
Issue	4
Published	1999-02-01

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Billy Collins

   All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now,
   and after this next one just a dozen
   to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas,
   then only ten more left like rows of beans.
   How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan
   and insist the iambic bongos must be played
   and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines,
   one for every station of the cross.
   But hang on here while we make the turn
   into the final six where all will be resolved,
   where longing and heartache will find an end,
   where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen,
   take off...

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