Hi I need some help with the form of this poem.
It looks like a Sonnet in that it has 14 lines and is all one stanza...BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY RYHME!
Is there a technical term for this type of poem?
Plus also if there are any internal ryhmes I'm missing, all I can seem to find is the repetition of the "I" sound..which surely is assonance...
Please help!

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It has been removed from other sites at the request of Wendy Cope's legal people, so I don't intend to paste it to this site.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2006 12:10PM by Linda.

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Hmmm ...

It certainly doesn't fulfill any of the other sonnet requirements. Beyond the 14 lines, I mean. Meter is not IP, except for maybe one line. Some lines are more ballad-like (4+3), but some smack of Sapphics. Some endings are masculine, some feminine, but virtually all are end-stopped. There is no volta (turn) either at line 9 or at the couplet at the end. It's not a love poem.

Nope - can't label it a sonnet, I wouldn't think.