Sonnet of Sonnets

To write a pithy sonnet takes a plan,
the line, the rhyme, the breaks, they all must be
the form from dead guys in antiquity.
So no free verse (I’m sorry Walt Whitman).
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The form supports the content if it can.
Italian breaks at eight, apparently;
the thought in six fulfills the finale,
iambic five is obvious in the scan.
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So here’s the break at eight (I said before.).
The reader preps to see in this sestet
some brilliant verse that’s terse and rhymed; therefore,
I best press on before I soon forget
the point of this most helpful exercise:
To end with rhyming couplets. Thus, SURPRISE!