Me again. (Sorry, to be so noisy, but please know that this will be my only thread commented on as I am soon hitting the road. I'll catch up when and where I can.)
BUT. I have something to say about the form. It isn't a mishmash and it isn't a modified. It is an envelope sonnet.
With reference to "The Penguin Book of the Sonnet" (editor Phillis Levin) which has a closing chapter on "The Architecture of the Sonnet", this is the definition of an "envelope sonnet."
A variant of the Italian sonnet that adds two more rhymes to the octave (abbacddc), resulting in two separate quatrains of rima baciata; the sestet remains variable, as in the Italian sonnet.
So this is a poet who knows what he or she is doing and it is a tour de force for opening day. (But I luv the the other Day 1 sonnet as well. Just don't have time for a detailed analysis.)
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