Elizabathean Sonnets

petrarchan tradition
love for the 
lady
except the great one
154
three quartrains and a couplet
volta imagistic turn on ninth classic
shakys on thirteenth
iambic pentameter mostly
abab cdcd efef gg
i failed in arith-
metic
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