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Sonnet Billy Collins Analysis

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Billy Collins, in his poem “Sonnet”, discusses the traits, complications, and resolution of a sonnet.The poem deals with a simple sonnet as he states, “all we need is fourteen lines”; he then mocks the Elizabethan strict rules of a sonnet when he suggests, “iambic bongos must be played and rhymes positioned” to discuss the format of a love sonnet and the complications dealing with rhyme. Collins uses imagery, metaphor, and anaphora to convey how useless it is to create love poems within fourteen lines, he uses a typical poem to contrast the Elizabethan strict rules and the rhyme structure; expressing this“on love’s storm-tossed seas” to convey the complications dealing with sonnets and describing love, he uses references such
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