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Sonnet By Billy Collins

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“Sonnet” by Billy Collins is my favorite poem we have read so far. It is funny, entertaining, and witty. In contrast to the other poems we have read, we do not have to try and decipher what the hidden meaning is.
According to our textbook, usually in a sonnet, the first eight lines are used to introduce or set up a problem and the remaining six are used to respond to said issue (Barnet, Burto and Cain). Collins used the first eight lines to show the issue, with humor, which is it is easy to write unless you must follow the rules. As shown in line five, “How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan.” Upon googling I found, “Elizabethan sonnet – a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with rhyme pattern
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