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"To Write a Sonnet" by Barbara Seddon To write a sonnet you must first desire to trap some vast unwieldy incident of lovesickness within a form intent on counting syllables. Are you inspired? The theory is that discipline will tire the endless energy of want, that pent up in pentameter, lust will relent, as you add rhymes, not fuel, to the fire. It doesn't work, of course, as you will know who've tried. From prisons float the loudest screams, from locked rooms fires that blacken half the sky. Put love inside a sonnet; it will grow. Already I can feel it split the seams; how soon before it seeks the fifteenth line? About the Author 
Barbara Seddon taught English for twenty-nine years, and since retiring last year, she has devoted herself to writing. She recently completed a young adult fantasy novel and is now engaged in a search for an agent. Her current project is a young adult mystery.
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