04-06-2012, 05:46 AM
This is a sonnet in the same sense that London's wolf was a wolf. Or maybe a tectak sonnet, which generally seems to avoid iambic pentameter as if it were work 
As to not sleeping together... well, it was a time--in literature--when manly virtue overrode manly erection ...of course that was manly* in literature Aside from the fact that they had no form of birth control and did not wish to be ostracized from society by producing a bastard; plus the idea of a man refraining from imposing his ardor upon the weaker women in a physical way as being a sign of true love was still extant. After all, this was not Henry Miller!
Dale
*Yes, that is a pun and not a misspelling. manly-mainly
As to not sleeping together... well, it was a time--in literature--when manly virtue overrode manly erection ...of course that was manly* in literature
Aside from the fact that they had no form of birth control and did not wish to be ostracized from society by producing a bastard; plus the idea of a man refraining from imposing his ardor upon the weaker women in a physical way as being a sign of true love was still extant. After all, this was not Henry Miller!Dale
*Yes, that is a pun and not a misspelling. manly-mainly
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.