By the way, I searched these end words and found that they go back at least as far as 1954, where they are cited in a journal
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A sonnet, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, is "a poem of 14 lines, rhyming thus: pig bat cat wig jig hat rat fig; lie red rob die bed rob, or lie red die bed pie wed, or otherwise, as with Shakespeare.
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I believe the New Yorker
quotes this same definition in 1935, but I don't subscribe to the archive and can see only the little squib that shows up in the list of search results on Google.