The sonnet has been pursued by major poets in english, italian, french, spanish. Why do they keep returning to this set of constraints? It really is because i think that the constraints are productive. They are generative. The rhymes mean that you're going to start to pop into your head words that you wouldn't have thought to use in that context. So as example, and a sonnet, you might say, olp, you, i'm in a right about ou know, the difficulty of aging. And so you're like, yuen, what arives trip? You do ship. That can happen suddenly, where the whole vista