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Sonnet 101A sonnet's what this is, that much is plain / There really isn't any need to stare / Its introduction's made in this quatrain

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Rondeau Redoublé: The Shoulders of GiantsRead Shakespeare and Milton and all of the rest / Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth are some of the best / Read Ted Hughes and Sylvia, Motion, Duffy

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Villanelle 101Cling to your rhyme through high water and hell / The theme is set up in the opening line / That's what it takes to write a villanelle

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Anthem for Doomed RemembranceWhat passing grief for those who fall in battle? / Only the merest murmur of the press / A paragraph between the tittle tattle

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If... (2010)If you can keep your feet upon the flat ground / And draw the line at frivolous ideals / And tell yourself this downhill train can turn round

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Triolet 101A triolet's first line echoes throughout / Its second line is also heard again / As if (within a cave) it was a shout

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Sonnet: The EditorIncompetent, corrupt and on the make, / You know all politicians are the same / You know this public service thing's a fake,

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Sonnet: PhoenixI still recall when I first saw you fly / Lifting yourself on wings that burned so bright / You traced your path across my darkening sky

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Epigram 101An epigram's a scorpion thing: / A compact body and a potent sting

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Haiku 101Now it's haiku time / Seventeen syllables dis- / -persed across three lines

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