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Cold Afternoon. (Sonnet) by Sasha

The many leaves were spiraled in a fall, the ground absorbing any life still left of branches growing bare and more bereft. The skies were readying a rainy pall, while men pulled on their ready coats, and all the world appeard as bracing for a storm, though none could know the fury or the form, only that it had hushed the cricket’s call, and night was on the wind -far more than one- forboded in new darkness of the sun, and skies swept clear of stars as by a hand- all hinted something mad might break the land. It wasn’t much, but caused the race of men to wonder when the dawn would come again.

Sasha 30-Sep-04/1:48 PM
They can.

C.F. Shakespeare (sonnet 18, lines 13-14)

"SO long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives grace to thee."

Wilfred Owen, Anthom for Doomed youth (lines 13-14)

"Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
and each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds."

Or the last lines from a sonnet by Ronsard, Les amours de Marie, XIX:
"Ça! Ça! que je baise et votre beau tétin
Cent fois pour vois apprendre à vous lever matin."

In short, even though your word is law and god where poetic forms are concerned, and even though you are exceedingly well informed on the topic and I clearly don't know anything at all about it, the last 2 lines can, and frequently do rhyme in a sonnet.




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