<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573252" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Less of the Different?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after Ashbery) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sonnet's 'just more of the same'? Uh, no.<br>It's rather like less of the different.<br>There is no formula involved, you know.<br>True, syllables and lines and rhymes get spent<br>At predetermined intervals: mirage<br>Of order. Inside, sonnets are a mess<br>Of words, a slew of syntax, a barrage<br>Linguistically set off; are nonetheless<br>Provisionally impish-and as free<br>As freest verse to chat up any ear<br>Or signal any eye. The form, you see, <br>Is just a well mapped route from which to veer.<br>A sonnet is a disobedience<br>Of sounds, a flaunt of form, a tease of sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hans Ostrom</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hans+Ostrom">Hans Ostrom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=573252" data-title="Sonnet: Less of the Different? de Hans Ostrom" data-description="(after Ashbery) A sonnet's 'just more of the same'? Uh, no. It's rather like less of the different. There is no formula involved, you know. True, syllables and lines and rhymes get spent At predetermined intervals: mirage Of order. Inside, sonne..."></div> </div> </div>

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