Interesting topic. Many of my poems start out intending to be sonnets (background thought: "Maybe this would do as a Nemerov entry") and then turn out to be better as 4 quatrains or blank verse. Sometimes an idea will occur that seems better as tetrameter. But in general I stick to rather simple forms, and the first lines and the form usually come to me at the same time.
PS: All you Americans might want to go out for a wildly expensive weekend. Come Tuesday, the dollar may be worthless except in Patagonia.
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