In Competition No. 2965, an enormously popular one, you were invited to write a poem about a verse form, written in that form.
It was Edna St Vincent Millay’s sonnet-about-the-sonnet ‘I will put Chaos into fourteen lines’ that inspired this challenge but there are other similar examples — Robert Burns’s fine ‘A Sonnet upon Sonnets’, for one: ‘Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings;/ What magic myst’ries in that number lie!…’
There were plenty of poems about the sonnet in all its guises, but I...
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