Well, surely Alicia Stallings, Dick Davis, Robert Frost, Tim Murphy and many others who disagree with Lew's strict definition have earned their poetic licenses and the rest of us unlicensed onlookers therefore have license to adopt the point of view that strikes us as most useful. Personally, I think that this poem and many others that would flunk Lew 's sonnet test are sonnet- like enough to claim the name, though of course those who care about such things will promptly see that they are different in some ways from the the sonnet tradition as practiced in earlier eras.
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