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Originally Posted by Lewis Turco
Well, if you’re going to run any contest, shouldn’t there be some rules? If you’re going to run a sonnet contest, shouldn’t the tradition and rules of the sonnet form be honored? Not many people have earned an actual “poetic license” (many of my former students have done so), but I suppose that now there’s an Internet most would-be poets have a “virtual” poetic license and can call anything a “sonnet” or anything else they want to call it. But that doesn’t mean everything they “call” a sonnet actually is one.
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Sounds reasonable to me. And Roger's neat inversion of your final sentence in no way invalidates it.