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Joshua Kronengold ([personal profile] mneme) wrote 2016-07-05 08:51 am (UTC)

It's true; I was mostly stylistically putting in commas where I had caesurae (yes, yes, sonnets don't have a structural caesurae, but this was a modified shakesperean sonnet form from the outset), but I didn't do so consistently.

In general, I should either put them in everywhere there's a verbal pause or just where normal English would include them.

... I've made a few changes. Mostly stuff you suggested, a few thnings you didnt.

I like the 14 feet in the final line, though. It's basically a portmanteau line; combining "everything that's wonderful" and "everything that's terrible", and as a happy accident I ended up with a triplicate in the middle; everything bouncing to wonderful bouncing to terrible. But I'll add a further edit to put parentheticals around "terrible" to lampshade it's extra feet.

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