To make it a sonnet.
I have recently come across various 'sonnets' which are 14 line poems, with a rhyming scheme (usually ABABCDCD) and a very rough number of syllables per line. Anywhere from 6 to 13.
Those aren't really sonnets are they? They are poems that are 14 lines long.
There is a difference.
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kickassangel · 28/08/2013 10:48
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