And Andrew, let me try once more. There's the Italian, the Petrarchian, several variants by Dante, the Occitan, the English, and the Spencerian, to name just a few that even the "traditionalists" acknowledge. They did not ome into being simultaneously as part of the initial fiat setting down their mandatotry features, and if Eratosphere had existed throughout all of history and Spencer had shown up for a bakeoff, I trust that folks like you would be telling him he didn't write real sonnets.
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