So a nonce form is one I invest, as opposed to one I take from the shelf fully formed. Presumably a Meredithian sonnet was a nonce form for him but not for us, since he invented it (if he did). I can't see how you can have a history of forms that are made up on the spur of the moment, as it were.
Ann, nonce, ponce, Beyonce. But isn't the last beyonSAY?
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