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We have a run of 750 sonnetbooks. Each book signed by William S

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Twenty Ten…

Approaching six thousand readers. Thank you for reading. OK maybe three thousand are me, but that still leaves 3,000. Why that’s the capacity crowd of the Globe Theater. The old one then.

It is a commonplace of blogs to mourn the lack of readership. But then why do it? It is because you read […]

The Iambic Pentameter System…

A line of a sonnet appears as a measured unit 10 syllables long, alternating unstressed stressed syllables.

This inner measure or metre, allows us to hear the line’s inner relationship.

Our ear follows the pattern that is created, or deviated from, through a succession of lines.

Four lines is known as a quatrain, […]