Still holds his own at sonnet or canzone.
As some shall know who follow this, my rhyme—
Some few: for gladly would I lay a pony,
Or larger sum, against a ten-cent dime,
That most of those who read this metred tract’ll
Not know a spondee from a pterodactyl.
II.
Explains—a task few modern penmen shirk—
The sociology of this great work.