The Power of Constraints

A sonnet is usually three quatrains, which is like three lots of four lines. A rhyming couplet just wrap it up and let people know you're done. Raymond Kano wrote a little book called Somn Mille Milleau de Poem. It's an interesting discussion as to what extent all these sonnets exist. If you constrain everything, then you're trapped in a really rigid box. There's no room for you to be created with absolutely no constraints at all. But with a few simple constraints, like you might have in a poetic form, that doesn't stop you being creative. So I think there's some sweet spot, right?