| Front | Sonnet 116 Form and rhythm + purpose x3 |
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| Back | •3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet •Largely but not entirely iambic pentameter, creating a natural rhythm, HEART BEAT sound, conversational, measured, controlled •Resulting rhthym and structure suggests constancy and stability •Sonnet structure is used for the logical negation of defining love |
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