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The poem, he explained, consists of thirteen lines in iambic tetrameter
and two lines of two iambics each; in all, one line more
than the sonnet's count. There are two rhymes only, since the short lines
must be considered blank, and are, in fact, identical. But it is
a difficult mode. It is true, he allowed, that the octet of the sonnet
has only two rhymes, but these recur only four times,
and the liberty of the sestet tempers its despotism, --
which I thought a pretty phrase. He pointed out the dangers inherent
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