If you want to make point then get on it Greats agree the best form is a sonnet Long enough to leave listener sated Its constraints divine, not too truncated A Lentini invention gone viral Brought into English through Milton et al ten syllables per line hence restricted still a powerful tool thus constricted Geniuses with thick words at the ready Keats and Frost and Christina Rossetti and others shared truth, a peek in their minds changing our view in fourteen little lines Where they use many words I would use few In fact just three would suffice, I love you
